On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 03:54:29AM -0700, Simon Cooke wrote:
> Umm.. actually, the priority of the other computers aren't taken into
> account; the ROM just checks to see if the line is busy; if it is, it waits

... a random amount of time before checking again ...

> until it isn't.

Because of course if it waited a fixed amount of time then the computers
would clash again after that time had elapsed.

imc

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