Subj : Yielding timeslices
To : David Noon
From : Lee Aroner
Date : Sun May 20 2001 03:43 am
DN> There was a TSR called TAME that could be added to your VDM's AUTOEXEC.BAT
> that did a lot of this for you, without needing to add it
> to the application code. IIRC, one simply tripped INT 28H
> and TAME did the rest, issuing the appropriate hardware
> instructions (mostly HLT with some "magic cookie" after it)
> for various surrounding operating systems (OS/2, NT, even
> Win16 in enhanced mode). There were other TSR's besides
> TAME that did the same thing (SLICER was another name I
> seem to remember). All of these were available on Pete
> Norloff's BBS, Hobbes, Leo, etc.
DN> Of course, well written native OS/2 code eliminates this
> timeslicing problem completely.
Just as well written native DOS code will as well. My DOS apps
barely register on any of the various utilization checkers, and
this despite using a polling type scheme for keyboard input.
LRA
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