Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 11:36:03 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: INB question Message-ID: <199709190206.LAA03892@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Sep 1997 11:14:34 %2B0930." <19970919111434.20114@lemis.com>
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> >>> 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. That's still not good enough. The reality is "0xff under all except certain specific circumstances". "Tendency" and "likelihood" both imply indeterminacy which is not present in this case. mike
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