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by EliRivers 1018 days ago
Oh yes, that brings it all back. Having the user tell me the IRQ and also DMAs and... I'm sure there was more. Sometimes the user would end up having to open up the PC and reseat physical jumpers on hardware cards to have the cards use values that were both offered by the software and not clashing with anything else.

Different world. So much easier now.