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From: jvte@euraiv1.uucp (Jan van 't Ent)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: STACKS=N,X in CONFIG.SYS: Discussion
Keywords: LONG, config.sys, stacks, interrupts
Message-ID: <139@hathi.euraiv1.uucp>
Date: 21 May 89 20:45:12 GMT
References: <106@cfatst.HARVARD.EDU>
Organization: Erasmus Univ.;EUR/EF/AIV; P.O.B. 1738; NL 3000 DR  Rotterdam
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sward@cfa.HARVARD.EDU (Steve Ward) writes:
>In an AT or 386 this is unavoidable in that my manuals claim that
>the defalut (no STACKS=N,X in config.sys) is to intercept the external
>hardware interrupts to provide a single stack for each interrupt
>vector.  In an XT the default is no hardware interrupt stack
>provision, so in an XT this feature is optional.

You could try using STACKS=0,0 though I don't know exactly what results
will be (and some reports say that not all MsDos versions allow this).
<Jan>