Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 12 Feb 1997 16:30:34 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: CONUNDRUM. |
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On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, A.N.Kuznetsov wrote:
> Hello! > > I'd like to propose a funny conundrum. > > History. [SNIPPED for brevity] > Alexey Kuznetsov. > You just answered your own question! You are using the Pentium Cycle timer. This counts everything, including the kernel's context-switches, updating the jiffies timer, time-clock, etc., plus dumping ethernet broadcast messages out onto the floor, etc, etc. There is a lot of activity going on when a program is being run on a multi-tasker.
A bare-bones MS-DOS machine will have very little overhead. Only the BIOS timer gets bumped 18.206 times per second and there's very little interrupt code to do that! You get to use nearly 100% of the CPU under MS-DOS.
Windows-95 certainly has more activity than MS-DOS. I question whether a MS-DOS application gets nearly as much CPU time under windows as a user application gets under Linux.
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