Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 9 Sep 1996 13:25:59 -0400 (EDT) | From | Jon Lewis <> | Subject | Re: signed int for interrupts?? |
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On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Marty Leisner wrote:
> Now I'm confused...2**31 is a huge number. > > If you have interrupts at 1 Megahertz, (10**6), you still have a big > enough number for 10*25 seconds of interrupts.
Huge, but not huge enough. This large number of interrupts comes from a Cyclades multi-port card. When the system is busy (50 or so PPP sessions), each Cyclades card can generate around 2000 interrupts per second...about 20x as many as the timer.
64-bit unsigned ints would be nice.
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