Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9041 invoked from network); 20 Mar 2001 17:32:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO murphys-inbound.servers.plus.net) (212.159.14.225) by 10.226.25.101 with SMTP; 20 Mar 2001 17:32:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 23387 invoked from network); 20 Mar 2001 17:32:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO post.thorcom.com) (212.172.148.70) by murphys with SMTP; 20 Mar 2001 17:32:05 -0000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 3.16 #2) id 14fPuc-0003ju-00 for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 17:27:14 +0000 Received: from imo-m07.mx.aol.com ([64.12.136.162]) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #2) id 14fPub-0003jp-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 17:27:13 +0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Received: from DL4YHF@aol.com by imo-m07.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v29.5.) id l.69.12bf83ae (24901) for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 12:26:11 -0500 (EST) From: DL4YHF@aol.com Message-ID: <69.12bf83ae.27e8ecb2@aol.com> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 12:26:10 EST Subject: TECH: Re^2: LF: WOLF - am I missing something ? To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Content-Disposition: Inline X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows DE sub 217 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group Sender: Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Hi Andy, Rik, and others,

A kind of "microtimer" is still there, no matter if you write your programs
in Delphi, C++Builder or any of Microstuff's Visual something.
The routine is called "QueryPerformanceCounter", it returns a 32 bit integer
value of a 'hardware timer' which ticks with a certain frequency ("ticks per
second"). The frequency of this timer can be detected by calling
"QueryPerformanceFrequency", it returns a value 1193180 which may sound
familiar to many DOS freaks. In fact, this timer seems to be clocked by the
1.193 MHz counter which was already present in the very first IBM PC.

Apart from that, I totally agree with your comments about DOS vs Windows.
Most of the REAL goodies are not acessable, or only with extreme 'red tape'
(thinking about soundards, interrupts, I/O-ports - sigh !)

73, Wolf DL4YHF.