Re: Timeing Question
- Posted by Mike Swayze <mswayze at TRUSWOOD.COM> Feb 08, 2001
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is this the reason for RS232 communications(timing critical) needing to be done in DOS? Swayze mswayze at truswood.com kswayze at bellsouth.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kat" <gertie at PELL.NET> To: <EUforum at topica.com> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 3:05 PM Subject: Re: Timeing Question .......................... > > The OS determines how many ticks to use on each program. If one app has a higher > priority than your's, it will get available ticks before your app will. And it may interrupt > your program to do OS stuff, like swap disc space. > > Kat