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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: INB question
To: tony@dell.com (Tony Overfield)
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> Port 0x18, on many systems, is an alias of port 0x08, which is 
> the read-only DMA status register and the write-only DMA command 
> register.  Likewise, port 0x1A is often an alias of the write-only 
> port 0x0A DMA mask register.

Peachy.  I suppose this was done "for no good reason", as usual in
PC hardware design.  8-(.

					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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