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- CPUMETER.EXE 1/1/91
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- Copyright (c) 1991, by Michael C. Robert.
- All rights reserved.
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- PURPOSE
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- Find out how much of your CPU is getting gobbled up by the
- applications running on your system.
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- VERSION
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- 1.00 Beta. (Yeah, that's right, beta. I sincerely hope that it
- doesn't crash your machine. Really, I do. (Just kidding!))
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- AUTHOR
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- Michael C. Robert
- 13 Mansfield St. #3
- Allston, MA 02134
- (617) 782-2424
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- SHAREWARE NOTICE
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- This product is Shareware. You are free to evaluate it for 30
- days, but thereafter you are required to send a $15 remittance to the
- AUTHOR. With this you will become a registered user, and will also
- make the AUTHOR very happy, help put his kid through college, etc.
- etc.
-
- What do you get for being a registered user? Well, um, I, ah,
- hmmm. Let's see... First off you get a personal and unique entry in
- my database. Yeah, yeah, and then... Hmmm. Oh, yeah, if I write
- any more programs, which I probably won't do if you don't send the
- remittance (plug, plug), then I'll drop you a postcard letting you
- know about them. I'll also send you information on updates to the
- program and the upgrade fee if you want me to send you a disk.
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- Also, feel free to pass around the ZIP file to your favorite
- friends and fiends, and to upload it to the BBSs you subscribe to,
- PROVIDED that the following files are all and the only ones included
- and that they have not been modified in any way: README.TXT and
- CPUMETER.EXE.
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- BETA NOTICE
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- Since this release is a Beta, any unique bugs you report will
- entitle you to a FREE registration (ooooo, ahhhhh), and a free copy
- of the final 1.00 version.
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- WARRANTY & DISCLAIMER
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- This product is sold AS IS, and provides no inherent warranty.
- It'll do what I designed it to do, which may not agree with what YOU
- think it should do. But if you drop me a line, I'll give your
- suggestions consideration. If I incorporate them, you get an
- honorable mention in the About Box, as well as a free copy of the new
- release. (But only if you are a previously registered user (plug,
- plug)).
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- The AUTHOR makes it known that he will not be responsible for
- any damages incurred during the use of this product. I.E., if
- through MISUSE, it somehow mangles your computer and/or data, which
- it won't do by itself, by the way, then don't come to me with your
- problems. This especially applies to any third party DLL's not
- directly supplied with this product.
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- Okay, Nasty Mode Off.
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- FILE LIST
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- File Purpose
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- README.TXT This text file
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- CPUMETER.EXE The CPU Meter application.
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- INSTALLATION
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- Install all the files listed above into the same directory that
- Windows is installed into, or if you want, install it in another
- directory that is listed in your PATH statement. If you modify your
- PATH statement, don't forget to reboot.
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- INVOKATION
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- Run CPUMETER.EXE as you would any other Windows application.
- The perfered method of running the application is to have it invoked
- automatically each time you log in. See below.
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- If you want CPUMETER to be run automatically every time you start
- another windows session or re-invoke the program, add the filename
- CPUMETER.EXE to the LOAD= line in the [Windows] section of the WIN.INI
- section. If you are unsure of how to go about this, look it up in
- the Windows User's Guide.
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- The first time you run CPUMETER you will be told that it is
- "Calibrating". This means that the application is figuring out how
- fast your CPU is running Windows in the current configuration you
- have selected. If you change your configuration and/or add new
- hardware, you should recalibrate CPUMETER.
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- * *
- * WARNING: *
- * *
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- While the calibration is in progress, you should not do ANYTHING
- with the computer, like type at the keyboard or move the mouse, and
- in addition, you should have no other applications running,
- especially DOS sessions.
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- GLOSSARY
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- CPUMETER
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- Refers to the main application program, CPUMETER.EXE, while it is
- running.
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- LIMITATIONS
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- Because Windows does not time-slice its applications, it is
- impossible to be completely accurate measuring the load on the CPU.
- CPUMETER goes a long way to trying to be accurate, but it can't do it
- 100%.
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- Also, because of the above, another Windows application can hog
- the whole CPU for many seconds, if it wasn't written properly, and so
- CPUMETER will report 0% or some other number and freeze there, even
- though, (and actually because), the other application is running and
- obviously chewing up CPU time. Unfortunately, there is no way for
- CPUMETER to detect that some snobby program is going to heist your
- CPU for an unfashionably long interval, so you will have to live with
- this limitation forever. (Or at least until "they" release a
- time-slicing version of Windows that allows its applications to have
- separate threads running. Ha, try to get them to do that, why don't
- you. Go ahead, try calling them and suggesting the above as a
- possible feature in the next release. Go ahead, try it. Know what
- they'll tell you? Buy OS/2. Yep, that's good 'ol Microsoft
- marketting strategy for you. Now if *I* were King for a day...)
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- BUGS
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- What? Bugs??? My software has bugs???????? You must be
- incorrectly interpretting a feature.
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- THANKS
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- Thanks.
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- Windows is a Trademark of Microsoft, Inc.
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