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In a computer, the CPU asks the hard disk for some data. Now there are many techniques to know when the hard disk is ready so we can retrieve that data. Polling is one of this techniques and consist in continuously ask the hard drive when this data is ready. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.125.57.216 ( talk • contribs) 15:24, August 3, 2006
The accompanying article should probably be expanded and renamed from
Polling (computer science) to (probably)
Polling (electronics), a title that also includes the closely related polling in
electronics,
fire alarms, and (probably)
telecommunications. (The last is doubtful only bcz it would also apply to non-electronic com systems like
optical telegraphy.) If there is a need to distinguish among polling in those areas, to the extent of separate articles, that may emerge in writing the overall article.
I credit a colleague (whom i haven't troubled to identify) for drawing my attention to this point. They asserted it using -- mistakenly, since "poll" is not used in those articles -- the Dab
Poll.
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Jerzy•
t 17:21, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
I think computer science is correct - the difficulty is that computer science has traditionally covered a lot of material that is now unknown to computer programmers and only seen in electrical engineering. Note that polling is pretty much something that only occurs in a device with a microprocessor; even though this might involve a tiny cheap piece of hardware, this would have counted as a significant computer in the early days of computer science. Polling is essentially a software concept, and originates within computer science from the time the field was much more concerned with low level issues; when computer scientists programmed in assembler and electrical engineers generally built analog circuits. 131.172.99.15 ( talk) 12:31, 22 April 2008 (UTC)snaxalotl
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The contents of the Poll message page were merged into Polling (computer science). For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected page, please see its history; for the discussion at that location, see its talk page. (2014-07-13) |
In a computer, the CPU asks the hard disk for some data. Now there are many techniques to know when the hard disk is ready so we can retrieve that data. Polling is one of this techniques and consist in continuously ask the hard drive when this data is ready. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.125.57.216 ( talk • contribs) 15:24, August 3, 2006
The accompanying article should probably be expanded and renamed from
Polling (computer science) to (probably)
Polling (electronics), a title that also includes the closely related polling in
electronics,
fire alarms, and (probably)
telecommunications. (The last is doubtful only bcz it would also apply to non-electronic com systems like
optical telegraphy.) If there is a need to distinguish among polling in those areas, to the extent of separate articles, that may emerge in writing the overall article.
I credit a colleague (whom i haven't troubled to identify) for drawing my attention to this point. They asserted it using -- mistakenly, since "poll" is not used in those articles -- the Dab
Poll.
--
Jerzy•
t 17:21, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
I think computer science is correct - the difficulty is that computer science has traditionally covered a lot of material that is now unknown to computer programmers and only seen in electrical engineering. Note that polling is pretty much something that only occurs in a device with a microprocessor; even though this might involve a tiny cheap piece of hardware, this would have counted as a significant computer in the early days of computer science. Polling is essentially a software concept, and originates within computer science from the time the field was much more concerned with low level issues; when computer scientists programmed in assembler and electrical engineers generally built analog circuits. 131.172.99.15 ( talk) 12:31, 22 April 2008 (UTC)snaxalotl