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from: Paul Neth
date: 1995-12-26 08:40:32
subject: Why not use timers?

Could someone explain why you dont want to use the Winstarttimer in a PM
thread, versus dossleep to provide polling?
I would prefer that an application would not use winstarttimer and then
consume all timers.  But what are the tradeoffs of each?
Thanks

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