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to: Paul Edwards
from: rowan crowe
date: 1995-04-28 08:15:40
subject: msged hard polling

Answering msg from Paul Edwards to rowan crowe,
on Thursday April 20 1995 at 21:25

 PE>> I checked to see just how often MSGED was polling the
 PE>> keyboard (I was under the impression it was no longer
 PE>> doing hard polling).  However, closer inspection showed

 rc>> Does msged support timeslicing?

 PE> Sort of.  It calls DosSleep at appropriate spots.  DosSleep
 PE> releases the timeslice.  It doesn't do this in the DOS
 PE> version though.  BFN.  Paul.

    So why not add it? DV timeslicing is easy, as is Doze and OS/2
(although I don't know why you would want to run a version in a DOS window
when there's a native OS/2 version available).

    If you need the relevant interrupts I can look them up for you.

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