Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:59:00 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Rafael García <rafael AT geninfor DOT com>
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Subject: RE: pause() in idle programas
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On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Rafael García wrote:
> But the bad results I told, are with another computer I was using: a 486
> laptop with 20Mb. There, I get better performance in the background proccess
> when I'm typing to the foreground program :-)

You should probably try to play with the idle sensitivity setting of the 
DOS box, and see if it matters.  The "Background-always suspend" setting 
might also be part of this puzzle.