On Mon, 2005-Apr-11 11:39:12 +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: >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. Alternative measurements of 1435mm or 4.787nsec are just as odd. >> Why did the English people build them like that? > >Why would any sane person continue to use inches, feet, stones, yards >etc etc anyway? That could be the problem :-). If the CPU and PCI bus is built using imperial measurements whilst the northbridge/southbridge is a metric BGA, the electrons could be getting confused by the changes in units and are arriving at the wrong interrupt pin. :-) :-) -- Peter JeremyReceived on Mon Apr 11 2005 - 09:28:18 UTC
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