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Re: A journalist wonders...
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"John D. Alleyn-Day" <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 9 Feb 1998 23:43:39 -0800
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Denys P. Beauchemin" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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>Shortly thereafter, the ISA bus should totally disappear (finally)
>on the new chipset and the motherboards will be totally PCI or AGP based.
> This will, at last, vanquish the IRQ limitations.

Could you please explain just how this is done?  If there are only a
limited number of IRQs (15 at last count and several of them already
bespoken), how does changing to a new bus system "vanquish the IRQ
limitations"?

John D. Alleyn-Day
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