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From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Timer driven functions
Message-ID: <6@obie.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jan 88 10:54:14 GMT
References: <1450@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <5080017@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Organization: UinTech, Layton, UT
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Summary: Someone who has written 'polling' code on PC in C..

In article <5080017@hpfcdc.HP.COM>, boemker@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Tim Boemker) writes:
> > asjoshi@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Amit S. Joshi)
> 
> > I want to have a piece of code (written in TurboC) to
> > be installed as an interrupt such that after a certain number of clock
> > ticks the code is executed.
> 
> I don't know the architecture of your particular machine, but on many machines
> interrupts are different than subroutines...

Turbo C has a lot of special features designed for handling interrupts
on the PC.  Terry Lambert and others at Century Software (SLC UT) have
written quite a bit of polling code for MS-DOS while developing 'Term'
for DOS.  Try sending mail to him; he might be able to give you some
pointers without giving away Century's code and making his boss angry.

	(...ihnp4!utah-cs!century!terry)

Tell him Wes sent you.