[geeks] Win32 Threads

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:24:41PM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> > It is also calling a DLL, which the main thread never calls, except for
> > once immediately before the thread is started.  So, the subthread is
> > just a while(1) loop calling the DLL for hardware IO, and writing the
> > results back for the main program to use, after some minor processing.
> > It produces a great leap in application performance, especially on dual
> > proc machines, since the IO calls are syncronous.
> 
> It's probably just a simple programming error then, since it sounds like
> your design is quite sound.  However, without a more specific idea of
> what's going on, I couldn't begin to make a guess.
> 
> > Dave, do you really want Doctors doing surgery on you without other
> > training?  Because until this is finished, someone has to be first.  And
> > to do it without Windows would require waiting for the patents to expire.
> 
> Or licensing them.

I would imagine that they would probably refuse licensing.  They've even
sued people making add ons to their hardware despite the fact that
addons require no major reverse engineering (apparently, the inputs are
either analog for device handles, or just on off for foot switchs).


-- 
Joshua D. Boyd