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To: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Interrupt Descriptions 
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In message <20091001090218.L21015@delplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes:

>Interrupt names should be no longer than 4 (5 works sometimes) characters so
>that they can be displayed by systat -v.

I disagree.  Bytes are cheaper now than they were on a PDP11.  We should
use as many as is necessary to convey sensible information.

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