#: 11570 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
    01-Aug-91  10:35:16
Sb: #11567-#Timer Thoughts
Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
To: PaulSeniura 76476,464 (X)

Paul  (this seems the easiest way of answering),

  "Our discussions on Delphi have concentrated on how best to get that user
task kicked in or "goosed" once the timer pops.

The main thing is: there really are different best methods for each need. And
".045" second accuracy is usually something critical handled inside driver irq
code. Few games need great accuracy, either.  MIDI seems like about the only
unique case to me... and it probably needs a driver, not a user task method.

  "need to know more about lots of things before we can even do some tests."

Some testing you can/should do immediately.  Such as checking out the way the
timer works, etc... which can be done under RSDOS, even.  You need the info and
experience.

  "If we did the pseudo-driver method, ..."

You could also do a file manager just to make the speed better for some types
of timer apps... such as output to MIDI drivers.



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