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Interrupt request

Interrupt request

Search complete. 6 mentions across 5 episodes found for "Interrupt request".

Sep 24, 2026

John PapolaHOST
63:41
You know, with IR, trying to figure out what IRE switch my card is on.
John PapolaHOST
63:46
IRQ, but.
John PapolaHOST
63:47
IRQ, IRQ, that's
Ben SlivkaGUEST
63:48
right.
Ben SlivkaGUEST
63:48
Yeah, no worries.
Brian MooreGUEST
13:07
Gee, I have to install this board to make my speech work.
Brian MooreGUEST
13:12
Oh, I've got to find an IRQ and a free COM port.
Brian MooreGUEST
13:15
Like, nobody even remembers what I'm talking about nowadays.
Donna J. JodhanHOST
13:20
Yeah,
David ShipleyHOST
4:26
The out-of-band updates also fix a Hyper-V folder sharing issue and some USB audio failures, though Microsoft admits certain USB Audio Class 1.0 devices still won't produce sound, and a fix for those is still in the works.
David ShipleyHOST
4:42
For those of us old enough to remember configuring Sound Blaster IRQ ports, this brings all kinds of big feelings back.
David ShipleyHOST
4:50
Here's a fun exercise.
David ShipleyHOST
4:51
Count the number of employees in your organization.
DennyHOST
38:03
If not, you had to be quick on that button.
DennyHOST
38:05
And you would literally press the button, which would trigger an IRQ interrupt on the serial port and cause it to take the screenshot.
ChaseHOST
38:14
Nice.
ChaseHOST
38:14
You did like a kernel interrupt on it to
Alex SmithHOST
50:26
So you had to do very weird things to access more than 640K of memory.
Alex SmithHOST
50:34
You had very poor peripheral management, which means that you were left playing IRQ hell on your sound cards.
Alex SmithHOST
50:44
Everything was text commands, which for the general public is very intimidating.
Alex SmithHOST
50:50
Windows 95 changed all of that.

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