At 06:40 AM 1/6/01 -0600, Gilbert Baron wrote:
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>> >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.
How about stopping everything in Windows but Explorer and Systray? Seems
like that would at least minimize the competition. I have very little
difficulty in CW contests running TR in a DOS window under Win98SE.
73, Pete N4ZR
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