Re: Surrendering timeslice under DOS?

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From: Kevin Vigor
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 04:54

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dburton@salzo.Cary.NC.US (David Burton) writes:

>kevin@wicat.com (Kevin Vigor) writes:

>> Once you know you're in an OS/2 DOS box, calling interrupt 2F with AX set to
>> 01680h will release the timeslice.

>Here's what I do:

<routine deleted to save space>

I hacked out some assembler source to a routine to detect and give up time-
slices under OS/2, WinDoze and DesqView and uploaded it to hobbes for anybody
who cares. It's not too pretty, but it works.
<oh, the file is SLICE.EXE>

-- 
		Peace & PopTarts, 
			Kevin
Email to the reply address will almost certainly bounce; use
72500.3705@compuserve.com

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From: kevin@wicat.com (Kevin Vigor)
Subject: Re: Surrendering timeslice under DOS?
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