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Re: IRQs and Endeavour Board & W95

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From: David Longley
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 00:00
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In article <837257759snz129.os2.7@horizon.co.uk>
           news@horizon.co.uk "Richard Ashton" writes:

> In article <omlet.31e7144cwn@news.wolfe.net>
>            _@_._ "Chris Pirih, proverbs at wolfenet dot com" writes:
> 
> } In article <836848634snz129.os2.7@horizon.co.uk>,
> }  Richard Ashton <antispam@horizon.co.uk> wrote:
> } | SPARE IRQ 13, and Most OS's don't need IRQ 7 for the printer.
> }
> } I thought IRQ 13 was used by the FPU.  Or was it just the old
> } external FPUs (8087, 287, 387) that did that?
> 
> Correct, only if the 80387 etc were external to the processor is IRQ13
> needed, it is spare on all (normal) 486's and Pentium machines.
> 
> {R}
> 
> 
But how can you allocate 12 or 13 (or 7) under windows 95? Except for the
latter (where I get a message that there is a conflict with LPT1:, I have
not control over these IRQs.
-- 
David Longley
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From: David Longley <David@longley.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: IRQs and Endeavour Board & W95
Date: 1996/07/13
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