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From: cdold@starfish.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Usable I/O Address range on the PC bus ...
Message-ID: <821@starfish.Convergent.COM>
Date: 23 Nov 88 03:01:43 GMT
References: <23617@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA
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From article <23617@amdcad.AMD.COM>, by phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai):
> In article <1278@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU> ward@cfa.harvard.EDU (Steve Ward) writes:
> |Where we disasgree is in the meaningfulness, hazards, etc. of 16-bit
> |decoding.  I say, if you do 16-bit decoding, you make it selectable

Of course, what someone might do, in the case of an 80386 machine rated
for ~30 UNIX users, is to have intelligent serial cards, five of them,
perhaps, that all address to the same '10 bit' address, but are unique 
amongst themselves with respect to the remaining addresses.

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