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- From: puchm@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (Silver Shadow)
- Subject: Re: Why does HIMEM.SYS not work with some keyboard chips?
- Message-ID: <puchm.716037538@marsh>
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- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
- References: <1992Sep4.023741.3497@leela.cs.orst.edu> <1992Sep4.153652.16199@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> <1992Sep9.044414.29506@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 11:18:58 GMT
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- leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) writes:
-
- >I suspect it was tied to the keyboard controller because it was the
- >only "free" toggle. Or at least the easiest one to deal with. Why
- >add a chip when you have an unused portion of one that'll do the same
- >thing?
-
- >The slowness *only* matters if you are toggling modes frequently. Which
- >*shouldn't* be happening. The old software that required the kludge
- >is gone by now, so the kludge can be disabled and *left* disabled.
-
- A person I know said something about 'shadow bios' (not sure?) not
- working bacause of this.
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