Re: Shutter timing

[Chris Albertson <chrisja@jps.net>]

Tom Droege wrote:
> 
> The stamp is really pretty fast.  I think it will do 10,000 QBasic commands
> a second.  I think it is just a question of the right code.  Everything is
> designed so that the users can change the code.

Speed is relative.  10K instructions/second sounds fast but todays PCs
are thousands of times faster.  It is possable to write multithreaded
code that looks for several events at once and reacts to them as they
occure but I'm not sure a STAMP is up to the task.  Once you do this
timing become non-deterministic and you may be beter off doing one thing
at a time in the STAMP.

I still think we don't have a problem. I think we will have repeatable
shutter times to under 1 part in 1000. 

But it's only software and it is easy to experiment 
>
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