Subj : Re: About To Blow A Gaske
To   : Raid
From : Deuce
Date : Wed Jun 22 2005 01:30 pm

  Re: Re: About To Blow A Gaske
  By: Raid to Deuce on Tue Jun 21 2005 18:12:00

 >  > It's more likely to be a result of running 100% CPU software... on modern
 >  > it's inexcusable for your program to eat 100% of the CPU while waiting fo
 >  > input.  In DOS, there was no way not to originally.
 > 
 > 
 > I don't know. I'm an old school dos programmer from way back. Even then, My
 > programs tried to use only what they needed. Back in the days of useful and 
 > memory hogging tsrs etc. :)

Yeah, but how did you wait for a keystroke for example?  Something like this:
while(!kbhit());
ch=getch();

Was pretty common.

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