Re: Too many schedulers

2006-06-26 Thread Kevin O'Rourke
Peter da Silva wrote: > Heh. My first reaction was "why are you still running Windows 9x?" I'm not, it's Windows XP Pro. > Not that kind of scheduler. :) No, I meant the cron kind. Imagine if every bit of software you installed on a Unix/Linux system came with its own special version of cron. Th

Too many schedulers

2006-06-19 Thread Kevin O'Rourke
Why is it that almost every bit of (hateful) software on my Windows box insists on installing its own scheduler? There's the Windows one, the Java Update one, the ThinkPad updates one, the HP driver update one and (most recently) the irritating and intrusive "InstallShield Update Service" schedule

Re: Basic18, and interrupt service routines

2006-05-23 Thread Kevin O'Rourke
Michael Leuchtenburg wrote: > The PIC18 compiler claims "ANSI C compliance". Somehow, I doubt it. If that's Microchip's own compiler for the PIC18s then it's very close. I used it for a real work project and it's not bad. I had to occasionally look at the assembly output to check up on what the c