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AST enabling and disabling

The DTASK fixed-part no longer re-enables ASTs, and the various AST events (timed reschedules and AST reschedules) no longer disable ASTs. This means that execution of outstanding AST handlers is no longer delayed while the main-line code tidies-up from earlier events.



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ADAM Guide to Writing Instrumentation Tasks
Starlink User Note 134
B D Kelly
A J Chipperfield

30 March 1992
E-mail:ussc@star.rl.ac.uk

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