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 Tue, 02 May 2000 00:28:39 +0400, "Alexei A. Frounze"
<alex DOT fru AT mtu-net DOT ru> wrote:

>Damian Yerrick wrote:
>> 
>> It would have to release timeslices to the apps that _are_ running in
>> the background.  Think of any solitaire, minesweeper, or samegame-type
>> game.  There are _lots_ of free cycles that could be donated to the
>> system.
>
>Those are interactive games. How about arcade games with a lot of gfx and
>motion?

On a machine that's getting 400 FPS in a Wolfenstein clone, I can
surely give up some of those FPS to the OS by calling __dpmi_yield()
at the end of each frame (my monitor can only draw 60 FPS).

>> >I think playing games or doing other job on web-servers (or something
>> >like that) is a bit incorrect. If they ran all this stuff on home
>> >personal computers that don't need to do any time-critical job all the
>> >time, what was their problem? :)
>> 
>> What if I'm running (say) WinApache or something while playing Insane
>> Game (a SameGame derivative for DOS)?
>
>Or a Tetris, right?
>Anyway, I still think serious tasks should be isolated from users and game
>players.

I use Apache for file sharing; sure beats mail attachments.

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