> On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Harald Koenig wrote:
>
> > but you'd need a huge bitmap for 64k ports for many (not too recent) cards
> > because of the great sparse IBM 8514A register layout:(
>
> 8192 bytes, and it can be solved that only _that_ process has such a large
> bitmap.
Well, that's the beauty of the bitmap - it's private to every task.
best wishes, marek
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