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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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