[Coco] technical assembler question

Robert Gault robert.gault at worldnet.att.net
Thu May 17 06:21:24 EDT 2007


Mike Pepe wrote:

><snip>
> Disk I/O halts the cpu, and the internal loops must be run with 
> interrupts disabled. So, yeah, your program will probably only be able 
> to look for a break key between sector transfers anyway.
> 
> well, at least not without going to a lot of trouble
> 
> 

But you could rewrite the NMI routine to include a BREAK key check. That 
won't hurt disk I/O.



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