From: "Tonu Aas" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: <3AC9D258 AT MailAndNews DOT com> Subject: Re: Real time commitment and IRQ 0 Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 09:45:24 +0300 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Lines: 14 Message-ID: <3ac82e2e$0$13593@diablo.uninet.ee> NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.204.53.21 X-Trace: diablo.uninet.ee 986197550 13593 194.204.53.21 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com > You're right. I'm using the most clear DOS boot (IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS and > COMMAND.COM). The only problem I see until now is the freezing of the > internal > date & time. There is no device driver loaded that could be using INT 8. Disable interrupts some time before(> int0 overhead) you must be activated and then do very precise loop to wait actual action time. After that enable interrupts and let DOS to do his work. Simple. Tõnu.