On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 11:52:11AM +0100, David Olofson wrote: > After all, the average Intel CPU these days has some 300,000+ cycles to fit > each jiffy IRQ in at 1000 Hz, so it's not exactly as if you'd have to hand code > the ISR in asm to get away with it! :-) Sadly enough, the interrupt hardware does not run at core speed!