These days the CPUs are so fast and the drivers are actually written
properly to enable sharing or IRQs and DMA channels without crashing.
Most of the MoBos have more IRQs now anyway.

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"J. Clarke" wrote in message
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But when it doesn't work it's a bear. In theory there are ways to
override the automatic assignment of IRQs, I/O addressed, DMA channels,
etc, and in theory there are now enough to go around anyway, but in
practice every once in a while you get two boards sharing an IRQ or the
like that just plain don't like each other, and getting them moved to
different IRQs etc can be a royal pain. Used to be with 8-slot machines
you could play musical boards until the problem went away. Now there
aren't all that many slots and they aren't all ther same.