From: jerry@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk)
Subject: Re: tasking under ms-dos
Date: 1997/10/26
Date: 1997-10-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877835542.67snx@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl> (raw)
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>jerry@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl writes:
>>I am not sure why you would expect your output to be interleaved, as
>>DOS does not do multi-tasking.
>multitasking, certainly to the extent of scheduling some other process if
>I issue a Delay call!!
Aha, yes.
I absolutely agree that delay should put the task to sleep, however in the
current DOS version it does not do this, because of rather arcane interactions
with DPMI and gdb.
A next DOS version should definitively include this capability.
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1997-10-26 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk [this message]
1997-10-27 0:00 ` tasking under ms-dos A J Cornah
1997-10-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-18 0:00 ` Application Development Service Providers That Use Ada Jerry van Dijk
1997-10-24 0:00 tasking under ms-dos A J Cornah
1997-10-24 0:00 ` Larry Coon
1997-10-24 0:00 ` A J Cornah
1997-10-24 0:00 ` Larry Coon
1997-10-25 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1997-10-25 0:00 ` A J Cornah
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