From news.sai.msu.su!Radio-MSU.net!Gamma.RU!srcc!demos!news.idt.net!netnews.com!howland.erols.net!worldnet.att.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!leto.ou.edu!news.ou.edu!not-for-mail Thu Mar 20 21:17:42 1997 Path: news.sai.msu.su!Radio-MSU.net!Gamma.RU!srcc!demos!news.idt.net!netnews.com!howland.erols.net!worldnet.att.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!leto.ou.edu!news.ou.edu!not-for-mail From: Justin Baustert Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.bugs,comp.os.os2.comm,comp.os.os2.games,comp.os.os2.misc Subject: timeslice fix for DOS sessions Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 13:45:02 -0600 Organization: Oklahoma State University Lines: 57 Message-ID: <3328593E.22A8@email.okstate.edu> Reply-To: jbauste@okstate.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.87.122.196 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b2 (Win95; I) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Xref: news.sai.msu.su comp.os.os2.bugs:5177 comp.os.os2.comm:1878 comp.os.os2.games:4559 comp.os.os2.misc:11937 This is probably of incredible interest to those that are running DOS sessions under OS/2 Warp v4.0. Some applications that had no problems under Warp 3.0 are stealing 100% of the processor time with Warp v4.0. This does fix one of those problems.. Use at your own risk, though I can assure you that it is working on my system wonderfully... [**********************************************************************] [OS/2 Conference [FidoNet] ] [From: Steffen Motzer DATE: Thu 06 Mar 1997 12:39p] [To: David Smith ] [Subj: warp 4 & DOS comm ] [**********************************************************************] Hallo David! Antwort auf eine Message von David Smith an John Meroth: DS> i set the bbs up as DV aware, and run ostsr to give the slices back. DS> So maybe Warp 4 doesn't give up slices as good as Version 3 does. 2 out of 4 methods of releasing time slices under MDOS are broken since Warp 4: DPMI time slice : MOV AX,1680 INT 2f CPU halt : DX:AX=msecs STI HLT DB 035h,0cah you can fix the DPMI method with this patch (based on FP1 buildlevel 9.025) ===[apply.cmd]========================================================== @echo off attrib OS2KRNL -a -s -r copy OS2KRNL OS2KRNL.ORG patch os2krnl.fp1 /a attrib OS2KRNL +a +s +r ====[os2krnl.fp1]=======================================================FILE OS2KRNL VER 67d73 662580007445 CHA 67d73 663d80007e45 ======================================================================== Servus, Steffen! --- FleetStreet 1.19+ * Origin: ... and the sky's the limit (2:246/1516.3) ********************************************************** -- Justin Baustert Courier Central Sysop 405.433.2665 (1:147/92)