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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaOS is real-time?
Message-ID: <7020@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 89 17:08:41 GMT
References: <16284@louie.udel.EDU>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <16284@louie.udel.EDU>, 451061%UOTTAWA.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (Valentin Pepelea) says:

> On the Amiga, any task is allowed to disable interrupts for no more than 
> 250 nanoseconds. The EXEC itself abides by this defined limitation, and 
> very loosely.

Umm, perhaps you were thinking microseconds here?  Considering that the 
minimum memory cycle time for a standard 68000 based Amiga is 558ns, that
number is clearly absurd.  I guess on a 68030 system, you could actually
complete an instruction or two in that 250ns :-)

> Valentin
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