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NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 14:07:10 GMT
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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 14:07:10 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
news:Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 991020141849 DOT 22660m-100000 AT is...
>
> On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Damian Yerrick wrote:
>
> > Oh, BTW, Eli meant the mode switches between real and
> > protected mode that happen hundreds or thousands of
> > times a second, several times each interrupt.
>
> Which interrupts fire with this frequency?
>
> I was talking about the timer and the keyboard, which are nowhere near
> these numbers.

Keyboard maybe not, but the timer fires exactly 200 times
a second when DOS Allegro is running under Windows.

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