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Date:      Wed, 13 Oct 1999 23:22:13 +0930 (CST)
From:      Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>
To:        jkruger@oskar.nanoteq.co.za
Cc:        narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Generating interrupts ?
Message-ID:  <199910131352.XAA53525@gizmo.internode.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <380469B1.A59EA53D@oskar.nanoteq.co.za> from "Johan Kruger" at Oct 13, 99 01:14:57 pm

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Johan Kruger wrote:

 > I want to read the the type of motherboard the system is running on, as well
 > as the BIOS version string.

With all due respect, part of the whole point of UNIX is that you don't
need to care about that. 

Why not tell us what you're actually trying to achieve (instead of 
how you're trying to achieve it) and we'll be able to give you a different
way of doing it which actually makes sense.  

   - mark


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