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echo: os2prog
to: David Noon
from: Jeff Dunlop
date: 1998-12-04 17:59:34
subject: Guess who`s back... ;)

IT>> Hope you closed all the applications first... ;)

 DN> It just means you have a duff machine. Those of us who have EISA or MCA
 DN> motherboards have the watchdog timer in the bus control chipset to deal
 DN> with excessively long disabling of interrupts.

PCI also falls in this category, or I would have no explanation for why this
degenerate case that used to crash my 486s doesn't crash my Pentiums.

Jeff

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