Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 17:31:12 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: peter@clari.net.au (Peter Hawkins) Subject: Re: Help with sb Message-ID: <199612261631.RAA09725@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.961227025619.peter@clari.net.au> from Peter Hawkins at "Dec 27, 96 02:54:04 am"
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As Peter Hawkins wrote: > For the record, it seems that dos does not use the printer's irq properly > hence it is possible to steal irq 7 (according to those who helped me). DOS uses polled printing. I'm not sure about Windows versions, i assume at least NT will also use interrupt-driven printing if possible. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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