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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Compaq KEYBDP.com and caches
Message-ID: <771@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 88 06:47:53 GMT
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
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Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
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We have a number of Compaq Deskpros. They all have the enhanced (101-key)
keyboard. I needed a new keyboard for my AT (Tatung TCS-7000 :-(  ) and
grabbed one of the spare Compaq keyboards. 

To function correctly on a machine that doesn't know about 101-key keyboards,
you have to run KEYBDP.COM. I'd done this before without any problems.

This time the computer started beeping at a high rate *and* the keyboard
locked. After much trial and error, I determined the cause. KEYBDP doesn't
like disk caching programs. Both SpeedCache and Compaq's CACHE.COM will
trigger the effect. Both were using extended RAM.

Can anyone suggest an explanation as to *why* this is happening? I'd really
prefer to have the use of a cache program and I am *stuck* with this keyboard.

-- 
Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
CIS: [70465,203]
"I used to be a hacker. Now I'm a 'microcomputer specialist'.
You know... I'd rather be a hacker."