Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 02:39:08 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Potential source of interrupt aliasing Message-ID: <20050411093907.GA19053@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <E1DKvIv-0008eB-RO@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> References: <E1DKvIv-0008eB-RO@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il>
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--LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 12:34:01PM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: > ... > > It's a pity that the modern PC is hamstrung by design decisions made > > over 25 years ago. >=20 > sorry, but couldn't help it :-) >=20 > The US Standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 > feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that > gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, > and the US railroads were built by English expatriates. [...] http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.htm Kris --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCWkW7Wry0BWjoQKURAjtEAJ474dzgDbT3G+ETG6OaRT8AplTb2ACg+jTD 03T29jDpWeAhajmTO4cVRko= =dkUe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp--
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