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    Quote Originally Posted by Robin Hewitt View Post
    You say "etc." before you say "Visual Studio". Windows is event driven and will never guarantee to return control to you in time to step the motors.
    That was my biggest hurdle when moving from DOS programming to Windows, instead of main() running in a continuous loop, it just had to sit there until there was an event.
    Will Windows interrupts be too slow ?
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