make it more intelligible, improve the partially bogus locking, and
allow for a ``quick re-acquiration'' from a pending release of timer 0
that happened ``recently'', so it was not processed yet by clkintr().
This latter modification now finally allows to play XBoing over
pcaudio without losing sounds or getting complaints. ;-) (XBoing
opens/writes/closes the sound device all over the day.)
Correct locking for sysbeep().
Extensively (:-) reviewed by: bde
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