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Old 12-09-2010, 11:18 AM   #1817
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"Sending" would imply some sort of communication between MA3 and the video timing.

Using the postman analogy, you (MA3) have no communication with the postman. You have no idea when the postman picks up the mail. Several times a day, you replace the letter in the mailbox with a new one, and at some point the postman picks up whatever is in there and delivers it. He does not know or care how many times that letter has been replaced in the meantime.

If the recipients of the letters would like a nice, regular delivery of the mail, they will have to take it up with the Post Office (the video card).

(P.S. for analogy sticklers only - The one flaw in that analogy is that the postman actually removes the letter from the mailbox, and thus would know if was not replaced the next time he checked the mailbox. A better analogy would be if he photographed the contents of the mailbox, and delivered a COPY to the recipient, without ever actually looking at the contents.)
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