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From: wright@hpccc.HP.COM (Jeff Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Real Time Programming
Message-ID: <5330014@hpccc.HP.COM>
Date: 26 Feb 90 16:52:38 GMT
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/ hpccc:comp.sys.atari.st / apolivka@x102a.harris-atd.com (polivka al 60047) / 10:51 am  Feb 23, 1990 /
Re:

> I want to write a program for the ST that involves acurate timing and
> therefore needs access to the internal clock or timers in the ST.  I
> would like a few suggestions.

Please post/summarize any mail responses you get.  I have been doing
a little midi programming myself in GFA BASIC and Sozobon C.  As far
as I have been able to determine, the best timer resolution you can
get in those languages is 200 Hz, which seems pretty marginal to me.

Another would-be midi hacker,

Jeff Wright
"midi is not a concern of my employer, to my knowledge"