From: DavMac AT iname DOT com (Davin McCall)
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Subject: Re: allegro gone missing?
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 04:21:39 GMT
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Actually, I would say that "200 times" is contained quite nicely by
"hundreds or thousands" (which is addmittedly a rather large range of
numbers).

Davin.


On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 13:54:16 +0200 (IST), Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>> Keyboard maybe not, but the timer fires exactly 200 times
>> a second when DOS Allegro is running under Windows.
>
>Even that high rate is far from ``hundreds or thousands''.

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