[fpc-pascal]dos approx delay fn that releases cpu

Thomas Schatzl tom_at_work at yline.com
Wed May 9 08:06:05 CEST 2001


>John,
>
> > interupts and doing a dos idle in between (believe that releases cpu in
> > NT/w2000???).  Anyone know exactly the code for that would look...?
>
>NT (and 2000) have a function specifically for this purpose,
>WaitForSingleObject (Sleep is also available but GUI programs should avoid
>using Sleep). This function returns if either the object is waits for
>becomes signaled or the timeout interval elapses. We can simply use our own
[....]

Imho John is in search of a cpu-releasing delay routine which works for
GO32V2 programs in a NT VDM.

Regards,
    Thomas





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