> If the hardware required an intermediate junk I/O, that would be a
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> reason to do one, but it doesn't, does it?  It requires a delay.  It's
> written thus in all of the application notes.

And the only instruction that is synchronized to the bus in question is
an I/O instruction. 

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> Wrong again.  Of course one knows how long the delay should be.  The bus
> speed is known. 

Wrong again. ISA bus speed is neither defined precisely, nor visible in a
system portable fashion.

I'm so glad you have nothing better to do than troll, if you
actually wrote code I'd be worried it might get into something people
used.

Alan
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