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Article #4610Re: BOOK: OS/2 Warp Unleashed, 4th Edition cancelled
From: wbg
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 00:00
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z@deltrak.demon.co.uk> <5qvvfa$9h2@news.nternet.net> <c1.01.2Gw8XV$17q@cretin.summerfield.network>: Organization: Hevanet - Portland's Internet Provider Voice: 503-228-3520 Distribution: John Summerfield (summer@summerfield.network) wrote: <WRT IRQs> : In any event, 16 (15 actually) is plenty: the AT (ISA) bus design is the : John Summerfield I must take exception to your assertion, Mr. Summerfield. If we both had the time, I could send you the details of at least half a dozen Wintel configurations that have passed through our shop recently where 15 IRQs were not enough. When you have Plug 'n Pray devices that have it all figured out which IRQ they *must* own, sound and video cards that seem to think they can't function without using up *two* IRQs, and compounding it all, The World's Most Widely Distributed Computer Virus (Win95) exercising its *own* perverted notions of which device should have what IRQ, then "plenty" can rapidly become a most ephemeral concept. Brewster Gillett -- *********************************************************************** W. Brewster Gillett wbg@hevanet.com Portland, Oregon USA ***********************************************************************
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10875a,4f87023eb90243aa X-Google-Attributes: gid10875a,public X-Google-Thread: 1044c2,4f87023eb90243aa X-Google-Attributes: gid1044c2,public X-Google-Thread: 10ee4f,4f87023eb90243aa X-Google-Attributes: gid10ee4f,public X-Google-Thread: 1021aa,4f87023eb90243aa X-Google-Attributes: gid1021aa,public X-Google-Thread: 112d6c,4f87023eb90243aa X-Google-Attributes: gid112d6c,public X-Google-Thread: 10cd94,4f87023eb90243aa X-Google-Attributes: gid10cd94,public X-Google-Thread: 10fb18,4f87023eb90243aa X-Google-Attributes: gid10fb18,public From: wbg@hevanet.com (wbg) Subject: Re: BOOK: OS/2 Warp Unleashed, 4th Edition cancelled Date: 1997/07/25 Message-ID: <5r8t0g$l0q$1@glisan.hevanet.com> X-Deja-AN: 258607549 References: <5fcrh0$s3p@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <5j1KzoHpvmFW092yn@skypoint.com> <5gfsb7$q8n@camel0.mindspring.com> <3337edbc.1987900@news.axion.bt.co.uk> <33329320.33D1@ibm.net> <33AC89F6.7F71@info-net.it> <5qoa91$61d$4@news1.telenordia.se> <869410485sn Followup-To: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.comm,comp.os.os2.marketplace,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.utilities,alt.org.team-os2,bit.listserv.os2-l Organization: Hevanet Communications Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.comm,comp.os.os2.marketplace,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.utilities,alt.org.team-os2,bit.listserv.os2-l