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Date: Mon, 18 May 92 10:02:55 EDT
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
To: CCMSHIU%usthk DOT bitnet AT nic DOT near DOT net
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: two kinds of exception handlers
Status: O

>>The remainder go through the common dispatch routines.

>What if other H/W device (eg. serial port/network cards) interrupts while the
>stack segment is not available? Should we give all H/W interrupts its own TSS?

Perhaps, but I think the pager can handle those devices being
unavailable during the paging.  It definitely needs the hard drive
available, and probably the timer as well.  The keyboard is hooked up
so that you can ^C the paging.

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