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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: INB question
From:       Terry Lambert <tlambert () primenet ! com>
Date:       1997-09-29 23:00:24
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> This was first hooked up this way back in 1981 when the first IBM PC 
> came out.  This has been working the same way for over 15 years.  
> They had no way to know that it would suddenly become a problem for 
> Terry in late 1997.

Or anyone else programming an MCA DMA register.

> They probably didn't even realize that the circuit 
> lacked "vision,"  since they had no idea they were laying the 
> foundations of such a colossal legacy.

Heh.  Because they lacked "vision"...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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