* Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011205 23:00] wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Alfred Perlstein writes:
> : What you do is fold a paperclip then use it to make the last
> : two pins of the ISA bus short:
> 
> and it doesn't work on PCI bus, or any other bus than ISA (except
> maybe EISA).  I have a small ISA card that I have connected to the
> parallel port for remote NMI generation/reset.  But it is a gross
> hack.

It will work so long as none of the busses leading from ISA to the
cpu are locked up.  So it will work on a PCI system so long as the
PCI bus or system bus is not locked.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
 start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
                           http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3

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