Re: A86: Re: Re: Maskable Interrupts

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Subject: Re: A86: Re: Re: Maskable Interrupts
From: David Thomas <david_hd@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 00:45:27 -0800 (PST)
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And a practical application would be?

> > >you could do that, but then the battery power would just be drained
> >  >incredibly.  what's good about using halt is that it uses
minimal battery
> >  >power
> >  
> >  that's not a problem, loop over a check for the on key _and_ a
halt; you
> >  don't really need to check it more than 200 times a second anyhow
> >  
> 
> 
> hey! sounds like a plan.  would still take a bit more battery power,
but
> nobody would notice
> 
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