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Date:      Mon, 11 Mar 2002 08:02:01 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        Michael Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Interrupt Context becomes a misnomer (was  Re: Core recognizesSMPng  tech lead )
Message-ID:  <3C8CD4F9.F55D4655@mindspring.com>
References:  <20020311190003.W5788-100000@gamplex.bde.org>

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Bruce Evans wrote:
> > This isn't a particularly novel approach; Apple use it, BSD/OS is likely
> > to go this way, and it's strongly encouraged by the IA64 interrupt model.
> > I'm sure that plenty of other systems do things this way as well; I just
> > don't have the research hours to track them down.
> 
> Two-bit micros probably used it since they couldn't afford the
> sophistication of the current model :-)

FWIW, Windows uses this model.

-- Terry

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