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From: addison@pollux.usc.edu (Richard Addison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: AmigaOS is real-time?
Summary: A nit about a nit...
Keywords: interrupts
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Date: 26 May 89 03:49:05 GMT
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In article <16182@louie.udel.EDU> new@udel.EDU (Darren New) writes:
>A couple of nits: First, I think memory allocation disables only
>task switching, not interrupts. Second, a trivial upper bound can
>be determined by checking how many tasks can be around at once
>(memsize / TCB size). Also, 1/60 second is a good upper bound,
>lest you loose the display.

Note that the copper takes care of maintaining the display (yes, even
interlaced) even when the 68000 doesn't respond to interrupts.

Richard Addison
"I've got a hole in me pocket." -- Ringo