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- From: bobb@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Bob Beauchaine)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Re: how long is a clock cycle (was source for DELAY procedure)?
- Message-ID: <10062@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 23:12:01 GMT
- References: <Bs7Hv8.Bqz@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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- In article <Bs7Hv8.Bqz@news.cso.uiuc.edu> amead@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Alan Mead) writes:
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- >I want to run another process during a Delay(). I don't want people to
- >overflow the BIOS keyboard buffer (it beeps then and that is bad for this
- >app). I think the easiest way will do this is something like:
- >
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- Another possibility is to move the keyboard buffer to a section of
- memory the size of which you define. This is especially
- attractive if you want to actually read the user's keystrokes that
- happen during your delay instead of just discarding them. Code
- available upon request.
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- Bob Beauchaine bobb@vice.ICO.TEK.COM
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- C: The language that combines the power of assembly language with the
- flexibility of assembly language.
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- Real friends don't let friends use UNIX.
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