Re: A86: Re: Re: Maskable Interrupts

To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A86: Re: Re: Maskable Interrupts
From: ComAsYuAre@aol.com
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 15:52:17 EST
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In a message dated 1/2/99 2:32:42 PM Eastern Standard Time,
assets@eden.rutgers.edu writes:

> >you could do that, but then the battery power would just be drained
>  >incredibly.  what's good about using halt is that it uses minimal battery
>  >power
>  
>  that's not a problem, loop over a check for the on key _and_ a halt; you
>  don't really need to check it more than 200 times a second anyhow
>  

hey! sounds like a plan.  would still take a bit more battery power, but
nobody would notice

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