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    AST RESEARCH, INC.        TECHNICAL BULLETIN # 1165          07/01/97

    TITLE:  Manhattan P & V and PCI Bridge Support

    ISSUE

       The AST Manhattan P and V servers, BIOS versions 1.14 or earlier,
       are PCI BIOS v2.0-compliant, which does not contain support for
       PCI bridges. Bridges normally use two function calls
       (Get-Interrupt and Set-Interrupt) that are specified in PCI BIOS
       v2.1.

       This issue affects the following systems: 501500, 501502, 501503,
       and 501830.

    BACKGROUND

       N/A

    ACTION

       AST is aware of this symptom and is presently working to
       incorporate PCI bridge support in our BIOS.

    NOTES

       N/A

    TAN N/A

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