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Date:	Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:39:33 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Reclaimed IRQs (?)

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This is a follow-up to my conversations with Steve Carter about
network printing.

Suppose we go that route, and now should regain the availability
of IRQs 5 & 7
(which had belonged to the printer ports). What can we do with
them ? In most
OSes, from DOS onward, haven't these been dedicated to LPT1 &
LPT2, in such
a way that you couldn't really do anything else with them ? I'm
not sure how
flexible Warp is in this regard, but I think most of the Win
versions have grabbed
them (via Plug & Pray) for this purpose alone.

For a long time now, I have had just one free IRQ -- either 14 or
15, I can't recall,
and I don't see it there in Hardware Mgr. Several years back,
when I still had the
Hayes ESP com-port accellerator card in my system, I tried to
give it that IRQ
(on the list of those it was supposed to accept), but it would
not "take," and I had
to give it another one. So, my own limited experience is that
even if you have a
free IRQ, you may not be able to make it do what you want it to
do.

Jordan

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