> Slow controll means in experimental physics - controll of
> devices which don't have hard real time constrains.
>[...]
> I assume that this kind of application is what Pete was
> talking about as he was speaking about "quite frequently"
> and finally "Solaris does without it so we could as well".
I used it for I2C on VGA cards and different ISA devices,
and flash programming. Remember that though ISA went away on
desktop, embedded people still use it. It was just FYI - if you
persuade Linus to strike /dev/port down, I am not going to shed
many tears, only a little :) It may be different for users
of languages other than C, but let them defend themselves.
-- Pete
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