Re: Config says there's a floppy drive

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From: Eoin Woods
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:57

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zzaascd@hpa.ee.man.ac.uk (Colin Dente) writes:
>I would be very surprised if there were any harmful effects of this bug.
>I have never noticed *any* high-level effect arising from the configuration
>set with CONFIG.  I have used systems with this information set completely
>haywire, but nothing seemed to care.  *Does* anything actually use this
>information?
According to my Apollo support person, almost all of config's
information is ignored. The exception is the primary network (802.3 or
Token Ring). If this is set wrongly you can have big problems until
you work out the problem!

Eoin.
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