Many of the bus signals are shared via open collector or open drain outputs rather than via tri-stated signals; this is of course required for some asynchronous things like the shared interrupt lines, and it works well for other types of signals as well. Of course, a backplane resistor pulls these lines high, PICs only drive the line low. /own /bgack /cinh /berr /dtack /reset /int2 /int6 /hlt