From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
news:stdefvgsbdippfmb1jfjj7rks0p4819n3l{at}4ax.com...
> >It isn't necessary for a DOS app to behave like that, but avoiding
> > it would usually take some extra coding which wasn't really much
> > use so I don't think many programmers ever bothered. I know I
> > didn't .
>
>
> There was an Int 0x21 call you could do that would yield the
> CPU to another process.   I used that call whenever I wrote
> a loop to wait for keyboard input.

Yep, I remember that one ;-)


Antti Kurenniemi

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