Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject	Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE
Date	2025-08-17 13:50 +0200
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On 2025-08-11 05:12, c186282 wrote:
> On 8/10/25 7:04 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> On 2025-08-10 21:57, rbowman wrote:
>>> On Sun, 10 Aug 2025 13:33:40 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote:

Huh, I forgot to hit send on this post a week ago.

>>>
>>>> On 2025-08-09 23:58, rbowman wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, 9 Aug 2025 14:06:08 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On most machines I saw, the turbo button "on" actually let the 
>>>>>> machine
>>>>>> run at its normal design speed. When "off", it slowed the machine
>>>>>> significantly, so that games and some apps would behave as if running
>>>>>> in the original IBM PC. No overclocking involved.
>>>>>
>>>>> You may be correct. It's been a long time.
>>>>>
>>>>> Many apps were designed around the 55 msec 'tick' that was generated
>>>>> when the 8253 PIT rolled over at 64K. A fun project was twiddling with
>>>>> the PIT to generate, say, a 5 msec interrupt grabbing the interrupt 
>>>>> for
>>>>> your nefarious purposes, but keeping track so the original ISR would
>>>>> still run at 55 msec.
>>>>
>>>> That rings a bell, it is familiar. I did not do it, but maybe games 
>>>> used
>>>> it.
>>>
>>> There were a lot of fun things you could do.
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminate-and-stay-resident_program
>>
>> Certainly, I did that once. In Turbo Pascal :-)
>> I don't remember what for.
>>
>> I also wrote a unit that would play the William Tell overture in 
>> background, capturing the timer interrupt.
> 
>    There was an outfit that sold libs for TP that
>    would let you do TSR and I think hotkeys. I used
>    TSRs to probe external devices, to update values,
>    while still sticking to the main display/control
>    pgm.

I think I remember that.

What I bought was a thick book with many powerful examples, perhaps a 
floppy.

> 
>    TSR is kinda-sorta 'multi-tasking' - within limits.
> 
>    You COULD make your own TSRs with TP, but it was
>    easier to buy the pre-made/debugged.
> 
>    https://jacobfilipp.com/DrDobbs/articles/DDJ/1989/8905/8905a/8905a.htm


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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