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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah, IRQ7 was also pretty common for sound cards as long as you didn't need to print at the same time. For DOS games, that wasn't a big deal but if you were running Windows and multitasking with something that played sound (I was an early adopter of MP3s), you couldn't use both at the same time.

My first Pentium PC was all kinds of awful because it used that IBM Mwave combo sound card /modem. You couldn't use the modem and play sound at the same time or it would lock the PC up. It was also configured by default to use IRQ7, so if you were online, you couldn't print either. At least I was able to work around the latter by setting it to IRQ5.