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Date:      Fri, 19 Sep 1997 11:14:34 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: INB question
Message-ID:  <19970919111434.20114@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199709190029.JAA02973@word.smith.net.au>; from Mike Smith on Fri, Sep 19, 1997 at 09:59:39AM %2B0930
References:  <19970918221839.VL10449@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199709190029.JAA02973@word.smith.net.au>

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On Fri, Sep 19, 1997 at 09:59:39AM +0930, Mike Smith wrote:
>> As Mike Smith wrote:
>>>
>>> The ISA specification explicitly requires bus pullup resistors.  It may
>>> be unwise to depend on reading 0xff back-to-back with a previous read/
>>> write operation, ...
>>
>> That's why i wrote ``unspecified, with a tendency to 0xff''.
>
> The implication (as an english speaker) from your claim was
> "unspecified but sometimes 0xff".  It would be civilised to qualify the
> "tendency" under the circumstances.

To be fair, I think that this is the same as "indeterminate, but with
an above-average likelihood of being 0xff".  I don't think this has
anything to do with the fact that I speak German.

Greg



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