In a quote from the Daily Planet, Scott Vetter said:
 SV>     Is there a way under OS/2 and running a PB program that
 SV> polls the keyboard to give up some of the time slices?   When
 SV> the program runs and polls for the keyboard performance of the
 SV> whole OS/2 system goes down the tubes.
    Use INSTAT instead of INKEY$.  You may also need to call
 interrupt 2Fh, function 1680h when keyboard polling indicates
 nothing is in the keyboard buffer. I.e.,
   do
     if instat = 0 then
        reg 1, &h1680
        call interrupt &h2F
     else
        exit do
     end if
   loop
   k$ = inkey$
 
... Many people own cats... and go on to lead purrfectly normal lives.
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