Re: Polling, Interrupts, DMA, Synchronous, Asynchronous I/O Definitions

From: Randall Hyde (randyhyde_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 07/16/04 

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 02:42:42 GMT

"Ray M. Ransom" <ray@mîcôsÿêñ.com> wrote in message
news:kixJc.80871$qw1.5414@nwrddc01.gnilink.net...
> "Randall Hyde" wrote:
>
> The classic polling loop has been all but relegated to relic status.

And the problem is, people simply assume that polling is no longer
being done, just because the magic word "blocking" appears in
the description. "Low rent, or otherwise" it's still polling.
Cheers,
Randy Hyde