12 Oct
2006
12 Oct
'06
11:25 a.m.
woodelf wrote:
How do we know it was not cross-assembled?
A quick poke at the code shows stuff in the .asm like "invoke (routine)"
so there must have been something going on. I'm not familiar with
"invoke", rather CALL and the like.
PS. I hindsite why did they not have the time of day
clock set to some
rational freq like 30 HZ?
Probably because they were trying to get it all the way down to 1Hz (so
that only full-second resolution were available) and were stopped by the
16-bit value of the divider which only allows going down to 18.2Hz... Or
maybe instead they thought "the less interrupts firing, the more CPU
time left over for apps" and just made it as slow as it could go. No
idea, really...
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