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From: valentin@public.BTR.COM (Valentin Pepelea)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re:  Information on Amiga Technical Reference Seri
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Date: 19 Jun 91 05:04:29 GMT
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In article <22547@cbmvax.commodore.com> andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy
Finkel) writes:
>
>The 2.0 parallel.device turns out to depend heavily on side effects
>of the 2.0 cia resource and timer.device, in any of its three speed modes.  
>It's just not that reliable under 1.3.  The programmer apparently did this 
>without  knowing, and has no idea he even was depending on the side effects.

Since I am the one wrote the parallel device, would you mind telling me
what side effect you are claiming is being depended on? I cannot write a
valid reply without that information.

In your opinion, was this side effect taken advantage of because I had access
to the source code, or because the documentation was unclear?

Incidentally, there are only two modes in the parallel device.

Valentin
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