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From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: IRQ conflict on SCO Open Desktop
Summary: ISC can use IRQ2 as well
Message-ID: <1990May27.183959.18120@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 27 May 90 18:39:59 GMT
References: <6119@scorn.sco.COM> <1036@sixhub.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@mcs.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Organization: MCSNet - Wheeling, IL
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In article <1036@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <6119@scorn.sco.COM> wul@sco.com writes:
>
>| | 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.

Not really.  ISC will work with IRQ2.

Both ISC and SCO Unix require that you call it something else though.

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