Re: A86: 200 Interupts/Second

To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A86: 200 Interupts/Second
From: MrManson <joemama@minot.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 01:01:03 -0600
References: <19971025.235744.9295.3.pricem@juno.com>
Reply-To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org

Matthew R Price wrote:
> 
>         There has been going around on the lists the idea that the calc
> checks interupts and runs the handlers every 200th of a second.  This
> sounds wrong to me; I thought that the whole idea of an interupt was that
> it didn't need to be checked periodicly because the interupt processing
> hardware would get the processors attention when nessecary.  I know t

i think it doesnt shut the processor off until the time is done, but
instead sees what can be done while the processor is in the non-enabled
period and then when the timer goes off it does the routines and then
goes back to the beginning

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A86: 200 Interupts/Second

From: pricem@juno.com (Matthew R Price)