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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