Re: Plug'n'Play? I think not!

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From: Stuart Brady
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 00:00

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In article <rO9ACAAphHe3EwAI@dunvegan1.demon.co.uk>, Paul Richards
<Paul@dunvegan1.demon.co.uk> writes
>Tom Bird writes,
>[stuff about IRQ's]

>It's amazing how much trouble some ppl have with IRQ's and I've never
>had any problems with them.  I've got 2 ISA cards, 2 PCI cards, 2 COM
>ports (do these take IRQ's?)

Try taking a look at MSD (\other\msd\msd.exe on the Windows CD-ROM).

> and 1 LPT port (takes an IRQ?).  

Sometimes conflicts with soundcards, IIRC.

>I suppose juggling IRQ's was like the good ol' days of juggling about to
>get 3 Kb more conventional memory...?

I've got 618,112 bytes of conv memory when I'm running Windows... I
didn't even use memmaker. The total conv memory you can have is 655,360
bytes (which is also 2^16 x 10).
-- 
Stuart Brady

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From: Stuart Brady <stuart@wholehog.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Plug'n'Play? I think not!
Date: 1999/07/02
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