[Coco] Interrupt 02

[John Donaldson]

Charles,
 IRQ2 is not used on a DOS machine. See msg from Richard E. Crislip for 
correct answer or email me direct.

John Donaldson


Charles D. Shrader II wrote:

>Interrupt 02 is NMI - which I'll wager means Non-Maskable Interrupt.  I
>will guess that this interrupt had to do with some sort of error
>correction in some very early 8088 chips to avoid system crashes.
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>Chuck Shrader
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com]
>On Behalf Of John Donaldson
>Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 1:45 PM
>To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
>Subject: [Coco] Interesting item
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>  I have been studing for my up coming A+ exams and came across 
>soemthing that I did not know
>until now. So I will post it as a question, just to see how many of you 
>can answer this.
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>     WHAT WAS IRQ2 ON A PC SUPPOSE TO BE USED FOR?
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>John Donaldson
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