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- From: cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
- Subject: Re: How to reduce CPU taken by DOS programs?
- Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
- References: <stanton.441.713729685@haas.berkeley.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 23:38:00 GMT
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- In article <stanton.441.713729685@haas.berkeley.edu>, stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton) writes...
- >I just tried using the "PULSE" program, and noticed that when I have a DOS
- >window open with FREEMACS (a little EMACS clone) running, CPU usage is up at
- >100%. This is silly. I tried using TAME, which works with Desqview, but this
- >didn't have any noticeable effect.
- >
- >Is there a way to reduce the CPU hoggery of DOS programs?
-
- Get the OS2SPEED.ZIP program from ftp-os2 (it's in the \pub\downloads
- directory, only a couple of days old). Or, you could get TAME, both
- these programs reduce the "CPU hoggery" of DV aware programs (like GSZ
- for instance which thinks its owns the whole CPU!)
-
- Srikanth
-