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From: "Ian Chapman" <ichapman AT nortelnetworks DOT com>
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Hi all,
	this thread is a bit above the level that I think about.  If I have:
cin >> buf; // do I need to worry about __dpmi_yield?

	I guess it should be used by people writing cin type functions not
users.

		Regards Ian.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> 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.