Organization: Penn State University
From: Greg Spath <GKS101@psuvm.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: Soundblaster IRQ and Port settings
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In article <s106275.734980377@ee.tut.fi>, s106275@ee.tut.fi (Anssi Saari) says:
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>In <1993Apr16.105809.22218@walter.cray.com> huot@cray.com (Tom Huot) writes:
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>>I would also like an explanation of this. If anyone can explain
>>why the SB Pro and LPT 1 can share an IRQ, please do so.
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>I think it's simply because DOS doesn't use the IRQ for anything. OS/2 does,
>so with that you can't share the IRQ.
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That is correct.  in DOS you can use IRQ 7 for your SB.You can't do
that under OS/2 because it uses IRQ 7 for the printer
