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From: hamish@thebes.cc.waikato.ac.nz (Hamish Marson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: The reason for stray interrupts
Date: 27 Oct 1993 01:32:32 GMT
Organization: The University of Waikato
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References: <2ais9gINN2t8@xs4all.hacktic.nl> <wilko.751660652@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> <2ajv84$9r2@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
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Jaye Mathisen (osyjm@cs.montana.edu) wrote:
> In article <wilko.751660652@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl>,
> Wilko Bulte <wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl> wrote:
> >Hmm, 
> >
> >I have run *BSD on various systems, and I have still to find a system that
> >does not complain about stray interrupts. And these systems were *not*
> >bad hardware, they have run both AT&T and SCO Unix without any problems.
> >(No comments on the virtues/vices of Sys V systems please).


> DEC 386-16 and 386-20 sx's don't have the problem, I get 0 stray intr 
> messages on those machines.

> On the other hand, the 486-24 that DEC made that was produced by Tandy does
> have the problem.

I have a no-name motherboard AMI bios, and a proprietry LB slot, that
doesn't get stray interrupts either....

Neither did another motherboard from TMC (486 66Mhz, VLB)


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