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Ah, by "this" I meant the articles 60Hz timer, not the proper date/time peripheral I imagined the article to be from the title. For a 60Hz timer, just being ab
by snops 7y ago
Ah, by "this" I meant the articles 60Hz timer, not the proper date/time peripheral I imagined the article to be from the title.
For a 60Hz timer, just being able to have a delay without needing to count all the instructions in between when programming.
- pvg 7y agoThe Apple //e had a way to track vertical retrace but that's a fairly late model. It was a sort of 'interrupt-free' system anyway so given that and its overall slowness, cycle counting ends up being the practical default.