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From: kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: TOS 1.4 question
Message-ID: <2267@atari.UUCP>
Date: 2 Sep 90 23:34:12 GMT
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Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale, CA
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hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) writes:

|One other problem I've had is due to Turbo16. The SwitchBack interrupt
|handler uses two delay loops to validate its invocation. ...

Ahh, if only I had a dime for every piece of software that FAILED on
the TT for this very reason.  Sigh.  Busy-wait delays are Evil.  Use
those clocks and timers, folks!  Especially games which take over the
machine anyways.  It's disheartening to have some of my faves rendered
unplayable on a speedier processor because of instruction delay loops.
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