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From: acm@Sun.COM (Andrew MacRae)
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Subject: Re: Port and PortW
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Date: 29 May 91 19:19:36 GMT
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In article <1991May29.042418.14898@uwasa.fi>, ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
> One piece of advice.  Whatever else you do, never experiment on your
> own with ports.  One can do real damage to one's system if one
> doesn't know what one is doing.  And even if one does, any mistakes
> can be fatal. 

In all fairness, it must be pointed out that mucking about with ports on
a pc is rarely, if ever, fatal.  True, it may damage your pc, crash your
disk drive, blow up your monitor, etc, but I doubt that it has ever caused
the death of the user. :)

Of course, those familier with computer folklore know that one should Always
Mount a Scratch Monkey!

						Andrew MacRae