On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > Hmm, has anyone tried using the "read back" 8254 command for latching,
> > instead? Chances are it's less buggy...
>
> We can try, but I think that it's more likely to be more buggy, because
> it isn't widely used by software. And at least according to the 8254
> docs they should be equivalent in what they do.
Are you sure it isn't used? Do you have sources of various operating
systems to check? I don't.
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