Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay?

From some even older references (just for fung) we have: REALITY - Assembly Language Reference Manual (May 1976, http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/microdata/reality/771009A_REALITYasmRef_May76.pdf) Definition: RQM - Process releases the remainder of its time quantam to the monitor.

Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay?

Analyst Advanced Bionics LLC 661) 362 1754 -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Noah Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 7:33 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? Yes

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Actually the RQM functionality existed at hardware level (a true release quantum timeslice) when Pick ran on the Microdata machines specifically built for Pick. Way back when, Master Dick (and the other fella) wrote 'the ideal operating system' as their thesis. The theory goes that operating

Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay?

On 30/08/12 08:55, dennis bartlett wrote: Well, then you would remember CHAP (where you create a processing priority). One could flag some processes to work as foreground and others, where finish time was not of great concern, to background. One then set CRON items to CHAP up processes

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I was soldering cables, when my supervisor said Hey they just came out with this fancy new *crimping* tool... -Original Message- From: dennis bartlett dqbartl...@gmail.com To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Wed, Aug 29, 2012 9:25 pm Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub

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Sent: Thu, Aug 30, 2012 1:18 am Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? Actually the RQM functionality existed at hardware level (a true release quantum timeslice) when Pick ran on the Microdata machines specifically built for Pick. Way back when, Master Dick (and the other fella) wrote 'the ideal

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...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of dennis bartlett Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 1:18 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? Actually the RQM functionality existed at hardware level (a true release quantum timeslice) when Pick ran on the Microdata machines specifically built

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, and is possible that it has less disk space than the phone has RAM...) Colin -Original Message- From: Rutherford, Marc Sent: August 30, 2012 10:19 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? Ah yes, Microdata - my first Pick machine. We were running a 32 user ERP on 64K of main

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' Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? I was just talking with a client this morning that was lamenting the fact that our proposed SQL solution would require 4 VM machines to run a comparable system to his current one on UniData that doesn't have as much processing power as my iphone

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From: David L. Wasylenko (I don't miss the 150/300bps modems) (( yes I am that old )) And old enough to forget that it was 110baud. haha ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org

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: Thursday, August 30, 2012 3:51 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? From: David L. Wasylenko (I don't miss the 150/300bps modems) (( yes I am that old )) And old enough to forget that it was 110baud. haha

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Thrashing, I believe. Good times. Good times. :-) -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Noah Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 10:33 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay

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, August 28, 2012 9:24 PM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of dennis bartlett Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 10:20 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re

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Of Charlie Noah Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 7:33 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? Yes, Dennis, it did. There are long technical explanations of how it worked, but it was indeed a clever, 'techie-appealing' concept. Back in the old Microdata days (yes, I'm that old

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The documentation is interesting for at least two reasons. 1) I have an R83 manual in my hands, v5 1990 that has the exact same text as the Microdata text below, except with the words REALITY and Pick interchanged, and one other subtlety: REALITY: RQM statement causes a one-second sleep,

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off topic ha ha.. ok, then how about going into debug n below, and using Peek/Poke and good ol' fashion arithmetic to fix GFE's? What fun! (yeah, me old too! A sense of accomplishment redeeming a 10MB file on which life depended!) McDonell Douglas Sequoia, and Allen, ever tried silver nitrating a

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connecting to that socket and affecting your programs timing :) Regards, Dan -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Kevin King Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 9:46 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] [ud] Sub

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Example code ? -Original Message- From: Daniel McGrath dmcgr...@rocketsoftware.com To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Tue, Aug 28, 2012 1:57 am Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? I needed this once for a test program I was writing (not production code). To do

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- From: Daniel McGrath dmcgr...@rocketsoftware.com To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Tue, Aug 28, 2012 1:57 am Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? I needed this once for a test program I was writing (not production code). To do it, I cheated a bit and used the socket API

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...@rocketsoftware.com To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Tue, Aug 28, 2012 1:57 am Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? I needed this once for a test program I was writing (not production code). To do it, I cheated a bit and used the socket API and used a blocking

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65432 microseconds W. S. J. -Original Message- From: John Thompson jthompson...@gmail.com To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Tue, Aug 28, 2012 9:51 am Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? Oh and I should have said usleep handles time in microseconds

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. RQM isn't even in the online help for Universe 10, but it does compile. -Original Message- From: David L. Wasylenko d...@pickpro.com To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Mon, Aug 27, 2012 9:41 am Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? Universe only supports

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: David L. Wasylenkod...@pickpro.com To: U2 Users Listu2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Mon, Aug 27, 2012 9:41 am Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? Universe only supports an integer for the SLEEP command... Try this in unidata: 001 CRT TIMEDATE() 002 FOR I=1 TO 5 003 SLEEP 0.5 004 NEXT I 005

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wrote: How interesting. RQM isn't even in the online help for Universe 10, but it does compile. -Original Message- From: David L. Wasylenkod...@pickpro.com To: U2 Users Listu2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Mon, Aug 27, 2012 9:41 am Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? Universe only

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-Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of dennis bartlett Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 10:20 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? Who on earth is going to understand what 'release

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Users List Subject: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? Is there anything in Unidata (7.1, in particular) that can do a sub-second delay, like maybe a half second? ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman

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, Inc w) 314 558 1482 d...@pickpro.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Kevin King Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 10:46 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay

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and time it? I'm fairly certain Unidata should have RQM since it goes back to the original Reality code. -Original Message- From: Kevin King ke...@precisonline.com To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Mon, Aug 27, 2012 9:17 am Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? Ah crap

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...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Kevin King Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 8:46 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? Is there anything in Unidata (7.1, in particular) that can do a sub-second delay, like maybe a half second

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...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Rutherford, Marc Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 11:23 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? While OT to your question, I miss the true RQM (release quantum) from the OS days. A nice way

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RQM is still supported by UniData, but it's now merely a synonym for SLEEP. NAP is a UV thing, with millisecond granularity. SLEEP, in both UV and UD, like the *nix sleep command, only counts in whole seconds. Larry Hiscock Western Computer Services RQM was supposed to be merely a command to

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, Inc w) 314 558 1482 d...@pickpro.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of lar...@wcs-corp.com Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 11:30 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? RQM is still

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How interesting. RQM isn't even in the online help for Universe 10, but it does compile. -Original Message- From: David L. Wasylenko d...@pickpro.com To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Mon, Aug 27, 2012 9:41 am Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? Universe only

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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 11:51 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? How interesting. RQM isn't even in the online help for Universe 10, but it does compile. -Original Message- From

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-Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 11:51 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? How interesting. RQM isn't even in the online

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H = SYSTEM(12) ;* TIME IN MILISECONDS LOOP H2 = SYSTEM(12) IF H2 - H 500 THEN EXIT ;* 500 MS ELAPSED REPEAT Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:17:01 -0600 From: ke...@precisonline.com To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? Ah crap, this client

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...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Marco Antonio Rojas Castro Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 12:00 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? H = SYSTEM(12) ;* TIME IN MILISECONDS LOOP H2 = SYSTEM(12) IF H2 - H 500

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- H 500 THEN EXIT ;* 500 MS ELAPSED REPEAT Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:17:01 -0600 From: ke...@precisonline.com To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? Ah crap, this client is Unidata 6.1 and NAP is not supported. I'm not seeing it in the 7.1 or 7.2

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O talk about bringing a system to its knees :) -Original Message- From: Marco Antonio Rojas Castro marco_roja...@hotmail.com To: u2-users u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Mon, Aug 27, 2012 9:59 am Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? H = SYSTEM(12) ;* TIME IN MILISECONDS

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...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 10:10 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? O talk about bringing a system to its knees :) -Original Message- From: Marco Antonio Rojas Castro marco_roja

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...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 10:10 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? O talk about bringing a system to its knees :) -Original Message- From: Marco Antonio Rojas Castro

Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay?

Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? In Universe Basic, the !SLEEP$ routine accepts milliseconds as a parameter. For example: CALL !SLEEP$(200) sleeps for 200 milliseconds (2/10 of a second). Of course it takes a little time for the routine to start up, so you won't sleep exactly 1

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Sent: Mon, Aug 27, 2012 1:34 pm Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? In Universe Basic, the !SLEEP$ routine accepts milliseconds as a parameter. For example: CALL !SLEEP$(200) sleeps for 200 milliseconds (2/10 of a second). Of course it takes a little time for the routine

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starting with a ! Only *eighteen* in BASIC HELP Jeez -Original Message- From: George Gallen ggal...@wyanokegroup.com To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Mon, Aug 27, 2012 1:50 pm Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? This is a Prime Information carry

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To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay? yep, it's there for compatibility with pr1me. the source is in APP.PROGS SLEEP: 0031 subroutine PR1ME(time.in.milliseconds) 0032 ;* if time.in.milliseconds 1000 then sleep 1 0033 ;* else sleep (time.in.milliseconds / 1000) 0034 0035NAP