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Article #3445Re: Surrendering timeslice under DOS?
From: Amit J Patel
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:51
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:51
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In article <93010.071447U16244@uicvm.uic.edu>, David James Alexander Hanley <U16244@uicvm.uic.edu> 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. |> I tried the timeslice code, too, and my program became unusably slow. I also tried giving up the timeslice every n keyboard polls, but that didn't help (after I thought about it, it made sense that it wasn't better). Are there any other time-slice methods in use? Perhaps by doing the DOS idle interrupt (28h?)? Amit
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!gatech!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!uw-beaver!newsfeed.rice.edu!rice!ruf.rice.edu!amitp From: amitp@ruf.rice.edu (Amit J Patel) Subject: Re: Surrendering timeslice under DOS? Message-ID: <C0pouG.BwB@rice.edu> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: amitp@owlnet.rice.edu Organization: Rice University References: <1993Jan9.045430.2626@wicat.com> <imD5wB3w165w@tcscs.UUCP> <93010.071447U16244@uicvm.uic.edu> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:51:52 GMT Lines: 23