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), you could get in big trouble
with the timeslice approach, though. If your timeslice was 50 ms, after
that time everything you were doing got saved and the next process in
line got the juice. There were certain things that released your
timeslice, too, such as IO operations, etc. If you were doing disk
access, and what you were working with got paged out of memory, you had
to go get it again when your turn came around again. If that took too
long, you went through the same thing again, and you might actually sit
there all day and get nothing done. No wonder we worried about frame
faulting. Ah, those were the days...
Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Charlie
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On 08-28-2012 9:19 PM, dennis bartlett wrote:
Who on earth is going to understand what 'release quantum' (RQM) means?
Still, it worked.. and such a clever, 'techie-appealing' concept - tho I
don't know that it ever did what I was told it did, it sure sounded good!
On 28 August 2012 02:51, Wjhonson<[email protected]> wrote:
How interesting. RQM isn't even in the online help for Universe 10, but
it does compile.
-----Original Message-----
From: David L. Wasylenko<[email protected]>
To: U2 Users List<[email protected]>
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 CRT TIMEDATE()
I've no idea if it's supported... but it's worth a shot to test.
... david ...
David L. Wasylenko
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-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 11:30 AM
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Subject: Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay?
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 "release quantuum" which
means to pause until I come back up in the time-slicing round-robin.
At some point I wonder if they didn't just replace this with a "Sleep
1" but that's not really what it was *supposed* to be.
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