Potential source of interrupt aliasing

[Kris Kennaway]

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.
> 
> sorry, but couldn't help it :-)
> 
> 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.

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http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.htm

Kris
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