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Re: operating systems design

From The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: operating systems design
Date 2015-02-03 00:11 +0000
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On 30/01/15 13:19, ruben safir wrote:
> So how is it possible to eliminate that "middle man"?  No matter how the
> interrupt routines are mapped as data in a system, you still need a
> routine to process the requests?  How can it be eliminated?

Obviously it cant but what can be eliminated by hardware, is a routine 
to decide which bit of hardware caused the interrupt.

Which you do by feeding that info as a hardware signal to the CPU, which 
then 'adds' it as a number to a vector table to work out where to jump to


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operating systems design ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2015-01-29 17:11 -0500
  Re: operating systems design Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-01-29 22:29 +0000
    Re: operating systems design ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2015-01-30 08:19 -0500
      Re: operating systems design "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2015-01-30 09:01 -0500
      Re: operating systems design Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-01-30 08:07 -0600
        Re: operating systems design Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2015-01-30 15:43 +0100
          Re: operating systems design Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-01-30 09:09 -0600
      Re: operating systems design Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-01-30 15:21 +0000
        Re: operating systems design Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-01-30 11:27 -0600
          Re: operating systems design Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-01-30 19:10 +0000
            Re: operating systems design Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2015-02-02 08:29 -0500
              Re: operating systems design Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-02-02 15:09 +0000
      Re: operating systems design The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-02-03 00:11 +0000
  Re: operating systems design Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2015-01-30 09:28 +0100
  Re: operating systems design The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-02-03 00:08 +0000
    Re: operating systems design Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-02-03 20:52 +0000
      Re: operating systems design The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-02-03 21:06 +0000
      Re: operating systems design Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-02-03 21:19 +0000

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