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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Definitely rules out windows, when was working in military in UK
it also ruled out any time-sliced OS/Processor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Do a search on why the first generation of Patriot Missiles
missed (I recall that was a CPU problem).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> BTW is it still true that some missiles are still the only machine
that uses software to predict the future? It’s been that long since I have seen
a line of code ………..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Tim<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>
delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz] <b>On Behalf
Of </b>Myles Penlington<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 10 October 2008 4:34 p.m.<br>
<b>To:</b> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List; rohit@cfl.co.nz<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [DUG] Controlling PC Hardware Ports<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>That probably rules out using windows.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Would have to run at real time priority, and I have no idea what
accuracy that will give you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>In fact you may have to write your own kernel mode driver for
that kind of stuff.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>It’s not exactly what windows was designed to do. There are
other real time OS out there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Myles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz] <b>On Behalf
Of </b>Colin/Mina<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 10 October 2008 4:28 p.m.<br>
<b>To:</b> rohit@cfl.co.nz; NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [DUG] Controlling PC Hardware Ports<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thanks,
but I forgot to mention that I need sub-millisecond accuracy hence wanting to
use the 'scope.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Probably
rules out using a standard Coms driver too.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Cheers</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>
Colin</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:rohit@cfl.co.nz"
title="rohit@cfl.co.nz">Rohit Gupta</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>To:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <a
href="mailto:delphi@delphi.org.nz" title="delphi@delphi.org.nz">NZ Borland Developers
Group - Delphi List</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sent:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Friday, October 10,
2008 3:53 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Subject:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Re: [DUG]
Controlling PC Hardware Ports<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>The other thing to do is to log the timing (current time) to
a log file <br>
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Colin/Mina wrote: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hi,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>
I want to monitor some code to ensure that I have some timing correct. I was
hoping to hook my oscilloscope to a readily available electrical signal (Such
as Serial Port RTS) and to add instructions in my code to set and clear
the appropriate modem port.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>
Unfortunately the old Turbo Pascal instructions that allowed this, eg </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>
Port[$2FC] :=
2)
// Set b2 of Modem Register and </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Port[$2FC]
:= NOT 2) // Clear b2 of Modem
Register </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>
but these don't appear to be available in Delphi (not in D5 anyway).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Any solutions please?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thanks</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>
Colin</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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