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- From: U16244@uicvm.uic.edu (David James Alexander Hanley)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: Re: Surrendering timeslice under DOS?
- Message-ID: <93010.071447U16244@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 13:14:47 GMT
- References: <1993Jan9.045430.2626@wicat.com> <imD5wB3w165w@tcscs.UUCP>
- Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
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- In article <imD5wB3w165w@tcscs.UUCP>, tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory
- Youngblood) says:
- >
- >>kevin@wicat.com (Kevin Vigor) writes:
- >
- >> Once you know you're in an OS/2 DOS box, calling interrupt 2F with AX set
- >> 01680h will release the timeslice.
-
- Well, I tried this, and the program became REALLY slow. The interrupt seemed
- to be giving up almost a half-a-second, far more than I wanted. Why might
- this be? I had in mind more like 1/100th of a second, so my program would
- respond realtime.
-
- >>
- >Does anyone know how to do this in pascal?
-
- Which pascal? It's different in every one.
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