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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: IRQ conflict on SCO Open Desktop
Message-ID: <1036@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 27 May 90 03:37:04 GMT
References: <6119@scorn.sco.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <6119@scorn.sco.COM> wul@sco.com writes:

| /--
| | Neither the tape controller nor (I think) the Ethernet controller can have an
| | IRQ greater than 7.
| | 
| | In summary:
| | 
| | Is IRQ2 usable with SCO Unix? 
| \--
| 
| Yes.  The standard configuration for network cards used internally
| with TCP/IP (3c501s, 3c503s, WD8003s) is IRQ2.

  Right on! This buys you one more interrupt than many of the other UNIX
versions support.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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