Ken Ambrose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It does -- most certainly. I've been in *DOS*, doing *NOTHING*, and the
> fans come on on my Sony. Beats the hell out of me what's going on.
It is well-known that DOS is basically a big busy-wait loop.
Ha ha -- only serious.
--kevin
--
for ($x = 0; $i <= 5000; $x++) {}
-- "Perl From The Ground Up" by Michael McMillan
(Windows NT Systems Magazine Columnist)
"A more common way to use a for loop as a timer is to have a loop
perform nothing for a particular number of steps, effectively pausing your
computer program... This is a very common program construct and one that
all beginning computer programmers learn to write."
-- Michael McMillan, "Perl From the Ground Up", p 71
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