In a nutshell, how does the PalmOS make use of the General Pupose Timers
(not the alarms) and can I use it safely.

Details:

If I wanted to use the awesome Dragonball General Purpose Timer (2 on
the VZ, 1 on the EZ), what aspects of PalmOS operation would I have to
watch out for?

I assume that since these timers are so quick (they last about a
millisecond), that the main things the PalmOS might use them for (e.g.
serial port), it would only use while my App is switched out.

So I'm assuming that it would be a lot more likely that the PalmOS would
mess up my timing, rather than my use of the timer would mess up the
PalmOS, but I wanted to be sure.


BTW, for those that are interested in sub-microsecond timing, the
Gemeral Timer on the EZ (which is timer1 on the VZ) has a 16-bit counter
at location $fffff608, and cycles per tick is an 8-bit value at
$fffff602...

Thanks for the info!
- Jeff



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