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From: ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre)
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Subject: Re: DOS 3.3/ProDOS (writing around MLI)
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Date: 24 Jun 88 19:24:24 GMT
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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.

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