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From: new@udel.EDU (Darren New)
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Subject: Re: AmigaOS is real-time?
Keywords: interrupts
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Date: 26 May 89 05:11:23 GMT
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In article <17441@usc.edu> addison@pollux.usc.edu (Richard Addison) writes:
>Note that the copper takes care of maintaining the display (yes, even
>interlaced) even when the 68000 doesn't respond to interrupts.

I thought you had to re-stuff the start-of-copper-list out to the
copper address registers during the vblank. Or can the copper
do that to itself? (I don't think so, but it's been a while
since I looked at that stuff...) -- Darren