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From: forgeas@swinjm.UUCP (Jean-Michel Forgeas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: CIA Timers and Interrupt priority problems
Message-ID: <18759fb0.ARN0afd@swinjm.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jan 91 13:22:56 GMT
References: <650@faatcrl.UUCP>
Reply-To: forgeas@swinjm.UUCP (Jean-Michel Forgeas)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Organization: The Software Winery
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In article <650@faatcrl.UUCP>, Jim Burwell writes:

> [...]This works fine, except that the CIA B timer hardware Interrupt priorities
> are so high that the music player now interrupts EVERYTHING.[...]

Just a suggestion: since Exec is preemptive, your interrupt routine could
just Signal() a task which has a priority of 1 or 2. Then the task really
becomes active each time it is signaled.
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