From: "Fabrice Francès" <frances AT ensica DOT fr>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Losing interrupts under NT or what ?
Date: 27 Jan 1997 09:43:23 GMT
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> Anyway,
> what I do know for a fact is that you can't access the sound card
hardware
> under NT, at least with the normal drivers, and that's basically all that
> matters to me :)

right, that's my problem too. My program has the nice/nasty feature of
accessing
all the hardware directly (sound blaster, vga registers (not SVGA
fortunately),
timers, uart, keyboard). For now, it works painful with the sound
disabled...

> I don't - I'm mainly doing my development for Win32 platforms nowadays.
> It's just that people looking for a good performance shouldn't be running
> DOS programs under WinNT or Win95 - native Win32 applications are much
> more suitable for that. Depending on your application, a native Win32
port
> might be pretty easy or very difficult to do.
You're right, but a port to Win32 frightens me...

> Not normally, yes, but I'm not sure if WinNT gives all the available CPU
> time to DOS programs.

Is there a way to parameterize the priority of Dos tasks ?

Fabrice