TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: public_domain
to: Bob Lawrence
from: Frank Malcolm
date: 1995-02-02 22:49:20
subject: sot/eot

Hi, Bob.

BL> BL> Nothing happens once you get below 200 or so. The pulse just
BL> BL> stays 50uS wide.

BL> FM> Then that's the limit of the machine's ability to do all the
BL> FM> instructions in the interrupt service routine before another
BL> FM> interrupt comes along. Which surprises me.

BL>  I've seen poory written programs like this before...  :-)

Hey! You've got the source - what's poorly written there?

BL> FM> A back-of-an-envelope suggested it should be much faster.
BL> FM> There's only about 30 instructions in there (if it doesn't have
BL> FM> to call the old timer tick routine, once every 55mS. Wish I had
BL> FM> a bloody CRO.

BL>  I wish I had a486DX2/66.

Nah, you need a XT to run VB effectively.

But I wish I had a bloody CRO.

Regards, FIM.

 * * What principles?  I'm trying to get elected!
@EOT:

---
* Origin: Pedants Inc. (3:711/934.24)
SEEN-BY: 690/718 711/809 934
@PATH: 711/934

SOURCE: echomail via fidonet.ozzmosis.com

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.