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Is this virtual comm port only available for quote.com datafeed, or will it
work with other datafeeds using DS/TS4? (and where can I get it?)
Simon.
At 17:30 30/05/2001 -0400, DB wrote:
> Mark,
>
> I have to make a little correction.
>You wrote:
>
> >
> > also for those who didn't know, that www.dynastorelight.com product is
> > pretty slick. they have a virtual comm port for ts4 that will feed
> > the www.quote.com data directly into ts4 without using 100 percent of
> > the system resources as ts4 does now.
>
>Actually (as I posted before), both numbers (95-100% in standard mode and
>60-75% with direct output) are not correct because Omega uses timer-based
>port polling, so hardware interrupts are generated continiously and _this_
>makes your machine busy. With the direct output, the "empty
>cycles" are exiting immediately without generation of hardware interrupts,
>so the CPU is released immediately and, despite of numbers shown by Task
>Manager, you may work with the other tasks.
>
>DB
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