Refresh ARB level [16 levels with two more negative?]
From
Louis Ohland@ohland@charter.net to
comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware on Fri Apr 3 08:51:34 2026
From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
While meditating on the divine, I noticed an Oddity.
There are sixteen Arbitration level, 0 through F. You have four lines
for Arbitration level, ARB0-ARB3, available on the MC bus. That gives
you sixteen levels...
So, there are two system-only arbitration levels, -1 [NMI] and -2 [Refresh].
So... how does the system memory controller signal -2 to the CACP?
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