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From: francis@arthur.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Timer
Message-ID: <1990Oct18.173627.5517@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 18 Oct 90 17:36:27 GMT
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In article <1990Oct18.032201.27217@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> scott@scotty (Scott Howard) writes:
>ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
>
>>If you don't care about the absolute units of time, how about just
>>using a loop:
>
>>	for ( count = 0; ! Button(); count++ )
>
>BAD IDEA!
>Why not simply wait 'x' number of TickCounts?
>

I believe the original poster said that the whole problem was that ticks
were to coarse a measure.

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