Re: Is it possilble to use timer interrupt in Apple II?

["Albert D. Kallal" <PleaseNOOOsPAMmkallal@msn.com>]

"winston19842005" <bjjlyates@NOSPAMbellsouth.net> wrote in message 
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> But your example of disk reads during keyboard typing is a bit strange to
> me, an apparent physical access to the drive for each keystroke? I would
> expect some buffering to take place - so that even on the TI I could type
> without character loss until the next block is read into the buffer
> (blocksize being 512 bytes on the P-system).

I had built my own custom input routine...and if I told the compiler to 
dynamic load this, it was un-loading after each call to the char input 
routine (which was in Pascal)....

So, it was a custom char input and edit routine written in Pascal...not an 
built system one...

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Albert D. Kallal    (Microsoft MVP)
Edmonton, Alberta Canada
pleaseNOOSpamKallal@msn.com