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Re:80286 ATX mainboard based on the IBM 5170 AT PC by hulitu on Thursday November 14, 2024 @02:54AM (#42133984)
It was also because a lot of HW (soundcards mostly) had a morbid preferrence for IRQ already allocated to the parallel (or serial) port. Sometimes one could fix this in BIOS, sometimes not.

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