On 17 Oct 2001, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
>> 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.
Heh. Best description I ever heard of DOS (from the Amiga crowd):
"... a popular non-reentrant interrupt handler ..."
> for ($x = 0; $i <= 5000; $x++) {}
A good compiler will optimize that right out of existence. :-)
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