Date:	Fri, 26 Jul 1996 14:57:55 +0200 (MET DST)
From:	Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
To:	"Alaric B. Williams" <alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: preemptive multitasking for dj
In-Reply-To:	<838120311.10346.1@abwillms.demon.co.uk>
Message-ID:	<Pine.NEB.3.93.960726145425.18223B-100000@ananke.amu.edu.pl>
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On Tue, 23 Jul 1996, Alaric B. Williams wrote:

>Thing is, I'm not sure how many RTCs will still generate this int, and
>I've heard that some BIOSes use it internally; in other words, messing
>with it can interfere with low level BIOS things like power
>management!
>
>Any verification of that???
I think there's a register in RTC that has one of its bits set when the RTC is
sending the IRQ signal. That way you'd only check it and you know where the
int is coming from.

Greetz, Mark

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