Mechanism for rerouting and dispatching interrupts in a hybrid s

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1992-12-17

1995-04-25

Ray, Gopal C.

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3642302, 3642808, 3642443, 3642545, 364247, 364DIG1, G06F 1324

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054107091

ABSTRACT:
A hybrid system environment includes a proprietary operating system and processing unit and a non-proprietary operating system (UNIX based) and processing unit tightly coupled to a system bus in common with a main memory and a plurality of controllers which include a number of multiline communications controllers and communicates through a common area of main memory. Terminal connections to the communications controllers for virtual terminal processing are made through a UNIX virtual terminal driver and system proprietary communications software components which include a server, network terminal driver (NTD) and multiplexer driver modules. The UNIX based operating system further includes a multiplexer terminal driver and a switching mechanism which is included within the virtual terminal driver. The mechanism enables switching from virtual terminal processing to direct terminal processing wherein communications is established between the multiplexer terminal driver and the communications controllers. An interrupt dispatching mechanism enables interrupts from the controllers to be rerouted to the multiplexer terminal driver and properly dispatched to the driver interrupt handler routines on the basis of line number thereby reducing processing delays.

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