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[TRLog] Booting to MS-DOS with Windows ME

Subject: [TRLog] Booting to MS-DOS with Windows ME
From: gbaron@home.com (Gilbert Baron)
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 06:40:32 -0600


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-trlog@contesting.com [mailto:owner-trlog@contesting.com]On
> Behalf Of Mark Beckwith
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 14:52
> To: trlog@contesting.com
> Subject: RE: [TRLog] Booting to MS-DOS with Windows ME
>
>
>
> >I assume you don't want the computer to send CW, as this will never be
> >reliable within Windows or any multitasking system which steals clock
> >cycles. The CW ends up like a piece of Gorgonzola!
>
> That boot diskette is sounding better and better all the time.  From out
> here in the "user" peanut gallery, isn't there some way to allow
> the keying
> part of the program to look at the clock cycles before they get stolen?
>


That is not possible if you want to allow stealing (REALLY DMA) to work. It
is NOT the DMA that is causing the problem but rather the fact that windows
uses time sharing to execute programs. It gives a certain amount of time to
each task and then stops the task and starts the next one in line. You would
have to stop that function and then you stop windows.



> Mark, N5OT
>
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