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   Message 747 of 3,371   
   Jonathan de Boyne Pollard to All   
   Re: os2apic   
   15 Aug 11 16:17:24   
   
   Thunderbird/5.0   
   UTC)   
   mp.os.os2.misc:3576 comp.os.os2.apps:1908   
   From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard    
      
   >> /prec   
   >   
   > When I used to use os2apic.psd, the *only* way I could ever get it to work on   
   > several different machines (probably more than 20 in total) without locking   
   up   
   > at random was to use /prec:lid   
   >   
   > Maybe that's because the BIOS was buggy as JdeBP suggests but it's equally   
   > possible that it's os2apic that's buggy.   
      
   Note that unless you used the /PIC and /NMI options as well, the "d" is    
   essentially meaningless padding there, and what that option was doing    
   was instructing OS2APIC.PSD to pick a particular choice when the MPS    
   table provides more than one of them.   
      
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