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From: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: 60 Hz interrupt mod
Message-ID: <9059@reed.UUCP>
Date: 26 Apr 88 04:20:25 GMT
References: <8804211832.aa02388@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> <1600@bigtex.uucp>
Reply-To: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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In article <1600@bigtex.uucp> james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen) writes:
>IN article <8804211832.aa02388@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA>, PGOETZ@LOYVAX.BITNET wrote:
>> NOT the IIe, which I have heard can generate interrupts itself anyway.
>
>Can somebody confirm this?  Can the //e internally generate any kind of
>regular interrupt?  A friend is needing something like this, and I thought
>the //e did not provide it.  I understand that the ][gs does though.
>-- 
>James R. Van Artsdalen   ...!ut-sally!utastro!bigtex!james   "Live Free or Die"

NO!  NO NO NO NO!  //e's CANNOT do this, not stock ones, anyway.

It's the *MOUSE FIRMWARE*

You can do a home IRQ generator. . .  Couple wires and give up a pin or
two. . .(on the game port. . . Have to have some way of figuring out if it's
your interrupt!)


Sean Kamath
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