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Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 19:29:22 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: "Alexei A. Frounze" <alex DOT fru AT mtu-net DOT ru>
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Subject: Re: 3rd Try: Maybe an asm problem? (Problems linking)
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On Mon, 1 May 2000, Alexei A. Frounze wrote:

> Okay, why not to freeze up DOS programs, due to task switch (it's possible to
> know when a task switch occurs)?

When the task switch occurs, you don't need to do anything, because the 
CPU is taken away from the DOS program.

__dpmi_yield is used when the calling program *does* have the CPU, but 
doesn't have anything to do with that CPU time.

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