Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/10/21/11:36:28
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Damian Yerrick wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Damian Yerrick wrote:
> >
> > > Oh, BTW, Eli meant the mode switches between real and
> > > protected mode that happen hundreds or thousands of
> > > times a second, several times each interrupt.
> >
> > Which interrupts fire with this frequency?
> >
> > I was talking about the timer and the keyboard, which are nowhere near
> > these numbers.
>
> Keyboard maybe not, but the timer fires exactly 200 times
> a second when DOS Allegro is running under Windows.
Even that high rate is far from ``hundreds or thousands''.
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