From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Tony Ingenoso"  wrote in
message news:3ef792b2{at}w3.nls.net...
> It doesn't necessarily slow everything else down.
>
> If the DOS app is keyboard polling, as is typical with DOS
> apps, there are idle detection heuristics in the scheduling to
> detect this lack of real work and "idle" the app.  It will get
> an occasional short time slice and chance to redeem itself if
> declared idle.

That was new to me, but sounds like a good plan.


Antti Kurenniemi

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