Re: Copper Effects In C.

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From: Deven T. Corzine
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1989 12:05

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Chuck McManis <cmcmanis%pepper@sun.com> writes in <120748@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>

cmcmanis>     /* SPIN FOR A WHILE */
cmcmanis>     for (i=0; i<1000000; i++)
cmcmanis>     ;

On 10 Aug 89 22:40:16 GMT,
451061@UOTTAWA.BITNET (Valentin Pepelea) said:

Valentin> Tss, tss, tss. Have we forgotten about Delay()?

Ugly thing about Delay() is that it's part of dos.library...

Valentin> You realize, if I were German and had just swallowed too
Valentin> much beer, I would have flamed you for this? :-)

Well, now.  From what appears to be the norm among German Amiga
programmers, I would expect approval for the busy wait, and
disapproval for otherwise cooperating with the operating system...
[You shouldn't need to ask for *permission* to go play with the
hardware directly!  You know the registers' addresses...]

Deven

p.s. :-)
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