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   From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard    
      
   >>> It's unfortunate that these two acronyms are so easily confused.   
   >>   
   >> Especially when, as it seems here, conversation is about to turn to the   
   >> way that Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controllers are dealt with in   
   >> the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface.  (-:   
   >   
   > Alright now...LOL, my MSI BIOS does what it does...you may have whatever   
   ideas   
   > you have on how things should work...and I don't even necessairly disagree   
   with   
   > you, however, it is what it is.   
   >   
   > In my MSI mb BIOS, as I previously described, the IOAPIC option ONLY shows   
   up in   
   > the menu when the ACPI mode is enabled. End of story.   
   >   
   > C'mon man...accept that a vendor has chosen to implement something in a   
   > particular way and deal with it...don't make that fact an overarching   
   difficulty   
   > for our conversation here. For the most part anyways you are merely pointing   
   out   
   > how you think BIOS settings should be, but I do not see any real examples you   
   > are using to illustrate to us why and how it impacts OS2...   
      
   That's a load of old twaddle, ascribing to me things that I never wrote.   
      
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