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echo: os2prog
to: PAUL RIDER
from: GREG MILLER
date: 1995-05-07 22:19:00
subject: Re: TimeSlices ??

-=> Quoting Paul Rider to All <=-
 PR> I am porting an editor I wrote to the Os/2 platform from dos.
 PR> However I would also like to make the dos version a little more system
 PR> friendly for Os/2... I've been advised to ask in this echo...       
 PR> How can I give up time slices to other processes while I'm in a loop
 PR> simply waiting for something to happen ?                Paul Rider.

Use INT $2F, function $1680.... That's the DPMI timeslice release. DOS, Win,
and OS/2 support it, although DOS simply doesn't do anything with it.

... I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat vegetables.
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