[Coco] OS-9 Level1 Version 02.00.00 FYI

Allen Huffman alsplace at pobox.com
Tue Apr 21 07:54:19 EDT 2020


> On Apr 21, 2020, at 6:52 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
> 
> But thats wrong Dave, L2 is 1/60th (nominally as it is at virq from the 
> gime.)

OS-9 is typically 100 ticks per second, but since the CoCo did not have a hardware timer to use, they used the 60Hz video interrupt for that port.

OS-9 doesn’t care — it’s configurable. OS-9/68K was 100 ticks per second, and later OS-9000 systems ran 1000 ticks per second.

But I once ran my 486 OS-9000 at 44,000 ticks per second to hijack the PIC timer and play WAV files through the PC Speaker with an audio driver I wrote ;-)

		— A



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