On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 21:56:22 +0200, Andreas K. Foerster wrote: > The old version did a "busy-waiting". That was bad, when you run it on > top of a multi-tasking system in an emulator. It waists cpu-cycles.
Even on a single-user DOS it is bad: increased power consumption, heat, less battery time... > The new version makes use of the hlt instruction. Not good either. You should rather issue a proper 'idle' int and let the task scheduler or power manager do its job. INT 28 http://www.ctyme.com/intr/rb-4122.htm INT 2F,1680h http://www.ctyme.com/intr/rb-4530.htm Mateusz -- FreeDOS is present on the USENET, too! alt.os.free-dos ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
