Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cwjcc!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!pawl!shadow From: shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Copper Effects In C. Message-ID:Date: 11 Aug 89 12:05:23 GMT References: <8908102247.AA12646@jade.berkeley.edu> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Lines: 31 In-reply-to: 451061@UOTTAWA.BITNET's message of 10 Aug 89 22:40:16 GMT Chuck McManis writes in <120748@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis> /* SPIN FOR A WHILE */ cmcmanis> for (i=0; i<1000000; i++) cmcmanis> ; On 10 Aug 89 22:40:16 GMT, 451061@UOTTAWA.BITNET (Valentin Pepelea) said: Valentin> Tss, tss, tss. Have we forgotten about Delay()? Ugly thing about Delay() is that it's part of dos.library... Valentin> You realize, if I were German and had just swallowed too Valentin> much beer, I would have flamed you for this? :-) Well, now. From what appears to be the norm among German Amiga programmers, I would expect approval for the busy wait, and disapproval for otherwise cooperating with the operating system... [You shouldn't need to ask for *permission* to go play with the hardware directly! You know the registers' addresses...] Deven p.s. :-) -- Deven T. Corzine Internet: deven@rpi.edu, shadow@pawl.rpi.edu Snail: 2214 12th Street, Troy, NY 12180 Phone: (518) 271-0750 Bitnet: deven@rpitsmts, userfxb6@rpitsmts UUCP: uunet!rpi!deven Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.