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- From: bert.tyler@satalink.com (Bert Tyler)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: GATEWAY TELEPATH MODE
- Message-ID: <15183.1011.uupcb@satalink.com>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 10:06:00 GMT
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434
- Reply-To: bert.tyler@satalink.com (Bert Tyler)
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- john.navas@uttsbbs.uucp (John Navas) writes:
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- JN>With all due respect, I'm afraid that AT&T was right and it wasn't a
- JN>BIOS bug. The BIOS should indeed disable any spurious interrupts
- JN>(defined as an interrupt for which there is no handler) that might
- JN>occur in order to prevent unnecessary system problems.
-
- And with all due returned respect - it sure is a BIOS bug. AT&T
- was selling this PC as an IBM-compatible, and shipping it with an
- incompatible "feature" that could not be disabled. The net result
- was that programs which worked on every other PC in our shop (and
- there are a few thousand of those puppies here) didn't work on the
- StarStations.
-
- By your reasoning, it would also be acceptable for the StarStation to
- simply shut itself off in the above case "to prevent unnecessary
- system problems". Heck, for that matter, why not refuse to power
- up in the first place? The ultimate approach to *preventing*
- spurious interrupts <grin>.
-
- Bert Tyler (bert.tyler@satalink.com)
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- . DeLuxe./386 1.25 #343sa . Did you expect mere proof to sway my opinion?
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