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Subject: Re: vga driver and signal 
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Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 22:30:55 +0900
From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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>> Well, I may be wrong :-)
>
>Well, sortof :)
>
>The delay caused by the system to process the interrupt and deliver
>the signal etc is unpredictable (well sortof) and is almost certainly
>too long so the window of opportunity will be missed ...
>
>This has been discussed to death many times in the past for the
>mouse pointer updates etc etc...
>
>-Soren

You are absolutely right.

Kazu


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