Re: Surrendering timeslice under DOS?

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From: David James Alexander Hanley
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 13:14

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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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