Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu!ralphw From: ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: DOS 3.3/ProDOS (writing around MLI) Message-ID: <2037@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 24 Jun 88 19:24:24 GMT References: <8806210243.aa00242@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> Sender: netnews@pt.cs.cmu.edu Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 14 In article <8806210243.aa00242@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS.BITNET ("David A. Lyons") writes: >The ProDOS MLI (Machine Language Interface) is slick, >well-documented, and leaves no good reason for programmer to code >around it. Well, except for performance, perhaps - but you could argue that that's Apple's problem. The kinds of thing I'm interested in right now (MIDI at ~38.5 kbps, fast serial communications) would fairly tax the ProDOS interrupt handling mechanism. -- - Ralph W. Hyre, Jr. Internet: ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu Phone:(412)268-{2847,3275} CMU-{BUGS,DARK} Amateur Packet Radio: N3FGW@W2XO, or c/o W3VC, CMU Radio Club, Pittsburgh, PA