Re: MIDRANGE-L Digest V4 #154

[Jim Langston <jimlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To answer the question, one of the uses of delaying less than a
second would have to do with hardware timing.  If someone is 
writing directly to the hardware (not sure if that's even possible
on the AS/400) sometimes you need to wait on the hardware.  PCs used
to use NOPs (No op) which would waste one CPU cycle.  The problem
with this, however, was that as computers got faster, that delay
wasn't the same.  It was much longer on a 33mhz machine than on 
a 100mhz machine.

That is where a delay less than a second would come in handy,
for one.  I don't know what the original poster was asking about
though.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 08:11:09 -0800
From: Joel Fritz <JFritz@sharperimage.com>
Subject: Is there such a thing as useless information??  was RE: Delaying  less 
than one second

Seems to me that bits of information that are seemingly pointless often come
in real handy later on.  But, there is also the mathematicians' toast:
"Here's to pure mathematics. May she never be of use to anyone."

> -----Original Message-----
> From: York, Albert [mailto:albert.york@nissan-usa.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 7:16 AM
> To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: FW: Delaying less than one second
> 
> 
>  This forum is for the sharing of ideas and helping each 
> other. Just because
> you don't see the practical use for something doesn't mean it 
> doesn't have
> one. If you don't have anything to add why don't you stop wasting
> everybody's time and just say nothing? 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jpcarr@TREDEGAR.COM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Sent: 2/13/01 4:31 AM
> Subject: Re: Delaying less than one second
> 
> 
> And the practical application for this would be??????????
> 
> ---------------------------
> 
> 
> > I can't find anything in the archives about this. Is there an API
> which
> will
> > allow you to delay a job for less than a second?
> 
> yes, the WAITTIME  MI-instruction can delay down to 1/1000th
> of a second.
>
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