Why don't we have more IRQ's?

Its probably because it would invalidate all current devices on the market. I doubt current devices would be able to work in that type of enviroment. However, it would still be nice to have a few extra IRQ's instead of disabling your onboard serial and parrallel ports for the extra 3 they give.

Screw overclocking my comps got <font color=red>NOS</font color=red>!!!!

I think if they were clever enough it wouldn't invalidate the current hardware. For example, let's suppose the current hardware is [indeed] only capable of using 4 lines for interrupt requests, then our current hardware would not work. That is UNLESS, we simply say that current hardware MUST be forced to use IRQ's 0-15 and NEW hardware is capable of addressing any of the interrupts between 0-32! That way and new device you purchase will be guaranteed to have the system resources.

I mean this makes since. Technology has endowed us with smaller transistor and interconnect size so space should not really be an issue (if engineered correctly).

To me the transition to this new standard is fairly simple. Hell somebody said, "We need a port to enhance the graphics capabilities so let's add a dedicated port and let's call it AGP" Of course, I'm oversimplifying I guess, but if the engineers can add things like AGP,USB,blah blah, then surely they can add 1 extra line to the interrupt bus.

Catheter and Caffeine IV are in place. Let's PLAY.

They could theoretically put most of the onboard stuff on the higher IRQ's and leave the lower ones for add on devices. I hate USB btw, it never seems to work perfectly on any system I've used it on.

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