Sender:	mat AT kikashi DOT lcs DOT mit DOT edu
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Exact timming II
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From:	Mat Hostetter <mat AT lcs DOT mit DOT edu>
Date:	21 Feb 1997 00:01:53 -0500
In-Reply-To:	Eli Zaretskii's message of Thu, 20 Feb 1997 08:45:05 +0200 (IST)
Message-ID:	<qtw7mk2u4zi.fsf@kikashi.lcs.mit.edu>
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>>>>> "eliz" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:

 eliz> On 19 Feb 1997, Mat Hostetter wrote:

 >> I discovered this problem when writing Executor's timer code.
 >> Windows occasionally randomly takes over/turns off the BIOS event
 >> wait timer.

 eliz> Which Windows was that?  I saw this on Windows 3.1 when testing
 eliz> the program I posted.

Hmmm, to be honest I don't remember.  I'm pretty sure that under Win95
some machines allow Executor to use the 1024 Hz timer and some do not.
But that's probably a different problem.

Sigh.  I'm beginning to suspect that Microsoft products occasionally
leave something to be desired.

-Mat

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