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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: A20 gate (was: KERNEL BUG: console not working in linux)
Date: 27 Nov 2000 20:52:12 -0800
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Followup to:  <D5E932F578EBD111AC3F00A0C96B1E6F07DBDD86@orsmsx31.jf.intel.com>
By author:    "Dunlap, Randy" <randy.dunlap@intel.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> Just curious: Are you (Alan?) saying this ("standard") based on the
> unpublished IBM PC specs (well, it was when I needed it around
> 1990; don't know about now ???).  Or do you have a copy
> of it?  They were mighty hard to come by, and I was working
> on a contract for IBM at the time (not at Intel).
> 

There is nothing unpublished about them.  They are old, but definitely
published.  As far as System Control Port A, they were published in
the PS/2 reference manuals.

	-hpa
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