Transcription: Windows 98 takes the information from the enumerators and stores it in the hardware tree, which is a database stored in RAM. The operating system then examines the hardware tree for resource arbitration. In other words, after storing the information in a database, the operating system decides what resources, interrupts called IRQs for example, to allocate to each device. The system then tells the enumerators what resources it allocated to their respective devices. The enumerators save the resource allocation information in the peripherals microscopic programmable registers, which are sort of d ...
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