Re: user-written interrupt handlers

[Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.north.de>]

Howard Chu writes:

>   Signal handlers aren't good replacements for interrupts; they take too
>   much time to be serviced -- maybe a tenth of a second, versus a few
>   microseconds for an interrupt handler. It would be unusable, for
>   instance, for the serial interrupts, while it would be quite appropriate
>   for "Monochrome Detect", say.
> 
> Well, since my only purpose here was to drive my interrupt-driven sound
> routines on the Falcon, that was just fine anyway. (Using the monochrome
> detect interrupt, fancy that.)

 btw what is the difference, isn't monochrome detect level 6 too? :)
(not that this should be a problem here...)

 cheers
	Juergen
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