Re: CIA Timers and Interrupt priority problems

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From: Jean-Michel Forgeas
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 1991 13:22

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In article <650@faatcrl.UUCP>, Jim Burwell writes:

> [...]This works fine, except that the CIA B timer hardware Interrupt priorities
> are so high that the music player now interrupts EVERYTHING.[...]

Just a suggestion: since Exec is preemptive, your interrupt routine could
just Signal() a task which has a priority of 1 or 2. Then the task really
becomes active each time it is signaled.
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Subject: Re: CIA Timers and Interrupt priority problems
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Date: 2 Jan 91 13:22:56 GMT
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