Re: A86: Interrupt questions


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Re: A86: Interrupt questions




the interrupt is what lets the keyboard work right

Dux Gregis wrote:
> 
> Couldn't he have just disabled the interrupt?  Or did he need to use an interrupt in
> Penguins?
> 
> Kirk Meyer wrote:
> 
> > also, you can control whether or not the calc's interrupt routine is
> > called. i think penguins uses this tactic because if you hold down LEFT
> > & DOWN it doesn't freeze the calc.
> >
> > > This is called just like the normal one.. About 200 time a second.  The only
> > > advantage I know of now is that it happens before the real interrupt(which
> > > includes user routines) and that you can use the user interrupt routine along
> > > with this.  So if you run a program that uses the user interrupt, it will have no
> > > affect on it. Another thing is that you don't have to push and pop registers..
> > > Other than that, it's just another way of doing things.
> >
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=   Kirk Meyer (mailto:_@ibm.net)   =
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=   "Set your affection on things   =
=    above, not on things on the    =
=      earth."  Colossians 3:2      =
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