[LUAU] more participation

[Hawaii Linux Institute]

Jim Thompson wrote:
>
> Interrupt routing isn't that difficult, until you have to deal with 
> all the legacy IRQ crap from the days of ISA/EISA buses.
>
> then its insane.
>
> So, PowerPC, MIPS, ARM, SPARC and x86 sans support for ISA are all 
> equivalent in terms of low-weirdness during install of a new card.
I remember IBM purportedly tried to deal with this problem by 
introducing its "proprietary" MCA (MicroChannel Architecture), which 
actually contributed to the beginning of the downfall of the mighty 
Blue.  I had wondered what the world might have become had (the old) IBM 
not been so stupidly greedy.  (Or greedily stupid?)