From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Gary Wiltshire"  wrote in message
news:h9eefvs1eeukn8e08c88b0u16ql4d76rsk{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 .
>
> I did.  As a fellow Pascal man:
>
>   procedure ReleaseTimeSlice; assembler;
>   asm
>     mov ax,$1680
>     int $2F
>   end;
>
> It is/was quite effective.

I can't help it, that's just so funny that I have to LOL ;-)


Antti Kurenniemi
(I was, what, 12 years old when I did that )

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