Re: Polling, Interrupts, DMA, Synchronous, Asynchronous I/O Definitions

From: Frank Kotler (fbkotler_at_comcast.net)
Date: 07/16/04 

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 04:05:30 GMT

The Wannabee wrote:

> In normal circumstances, it is not at all needed for desktop apps to hog
> high priorties. [snip]

Cool. Thanks for the rundown. As you know, I'm not too interested in
Windows programming, but I need to learn this stuff for Linux - which is
different, of course, but I figure the same general principles apply...

Best,
Frank

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