From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: 3rd Try: Maybe an asm problem? (Problems linking)
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On Mon, 1 May 2000 14:06:08 +0300 (IDT), Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>On Mon, 1 May 2000, Alexei A. Frounze wrote:
>
>> 1680h of 2fh. :)) I used it only once. I think there are a lot of
>> people who never used it at all.
>
>Actually, most of them do, especially if they use RHIDE, Emacs, Less, 
>Info, and other programs.  2Fh/1680h is the function called by the 
>library function __dpmi_yield; most interactive programs call that 
>function inside their idle loop (or if they don't, they should).

Oh, BTW, how often should __dpmi_yield() be called, to balance time
between drawing an app's graphics and giving time to other apps?

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