On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Rainer Canavan wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 01:08:11AM +0100, Rainer Canavan wrote: > > It may be not so bad if threading has almost always been there. You may get > into trouble with library calls from a callback function, but hopefully > everything is thread safe, so one should not expect trouble with threads. > Then again, thread-safe environments should be callback-safe. Callbacks > leave a bland taste in my mouth since the bad old days of DOS interrupts.
Those were the good old days of glory... Programming 8-bit OR 16-bit DMA, acknowledging both interrupt controllers... masking and unmasking. Telling the DMA and SoundBlaster different buffer sizes etc. -- /Rickard Lind
