Author: Bo Persson
Date: 14:05:13 05/27/99
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On May 26, 1999 at 23:37:22, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 26, 1999 at 15:16:30, Bo Persson wrote: > >>On May 25, 1999 at 15:36:50, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>[snip] >> >>>I don't worry about IRQs. :) Linux can handle one device per IRQ, or 10 >>>devices per IRQ with absolutely no problems. So we _never_ have to disable >>>something, or move jumpers, or anything else. One day windows will be as >>>good? :) >>> >>>Bob >> >>Yeah, that happened last year! :-) >> >>Windows 98 does IRQ sharing as well with proper PnP devices. I'm using such a >>machine right now (with 2 devices using IRQ 10 and 3 devices at IRQ 11). >> >> >>Bo Persson >>bop@malmo.mail.telia.com > > >that's part of the issue. Linux doesn't depend on PnP stuff... it has done >IRQ sharing since the PCI bus came out almost. > >Oh yes... I have a linux box that has been up for 513 days and counting. Got >anything like that in windows? :) No, not really... Some time ago Microsoft released an updated clock driver for Windows 95. Seems that the orginal driver just hangs if the computer is not rebooted for a couple of months. It took several years for anyone to notice... >(this box is a campus news server and is heavily used also... not just sitting >there doing nothing) Bo Persson bop@malmo.mail.telia.com
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