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PROGRAM
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CPUMETER.EXE 1/1/91
Copyright (c) 1991, by Michael C. Robert.
All rights reserved.
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PURPOSE
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Find out how much of your CPU is getting gobbled up by the
applications running on your system.
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VERSION
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1.00 Beta. (Yeah, that's right, beta. I sincerely hope that it
doesn't crash your machine. Really, I do. (Just kidding!))
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AUTHOR
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Michael C. Robert
13 Mansfield St. #3
Allston, MA 02134
(617) 782-2424
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SHAREWARE NOTICE
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This product is Shareware. You are free to evaluate it for 30
days, but thereafter you are required to send a $15 remittance to the
AUTHOR. With this you will become a registered user, and will also
make the AUTHOR very happy, help put his kid through college, etc.
etc.
What do you get for being a registered user? Well, um, I, ah,
hmmm. Let's see... First off you get a personal and unique entry in
my database. Yeah, yeah, and then... Hmmm. Oh, yeah, if I write
any more programs, which I probably won't do if you don't send the
remittance (plug, plug), then I'll drop you a postcard letting you
know about them. I'll also send you information on updates to the
program and the upgrade fee if you want me to send you a disk.
Also, feel free to pass around the ZIP file to your favorite
friends and fiends, and to upload it to the BBSs you subscribe to,
PROVIDED that the following files are all and the only ones included
and that they have not been modified in any way: README.TXT and
CPUMETER.EXE.
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BETA NOTICE
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Since this release is a Beta, any unique bugs you report will
entitle you to a FREE registration (ooooo, ahhhhh), and a free copy
of the final 1.00 version.
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WARRANTY & DISCLAIMER
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This product is sold AS IS, and provides no inherent warranty.
It'll do what I designed it to do, which may not agree with what YOU
think it should do. But if you drop me a line, I'll give your
suggestions consideration. If I incorporate them, you get an
honorable mention in the About Box, as well as a free copy of the new
release. (But only if you are a previously registered user (plug,
plug)).
The AUTHOR makes it known that he will not be responsible for
any damages incurred during the use of this product. I.E., if
through MISUSE, it somehow mangles your computer and/or data, which
it won't do by itself, by the way, then don't come to me with your
problems. This especially applies to any third party DLL's not
directly supplied with this product.
Okay, Nasty Mode Off.
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FILE LIST
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File Purpose
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README.TXT This text file
CPUMETER.EXE The CPU Meter application.
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INSTALLATION
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Install all the files listed above into the same directory that
Windows is installed into, or if you want, install it in another
directory that is listed in your PATH statement. If you modify your
PATH statement, don't forget to reboot.
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INVOKATION
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Run CPUMETER.EXE as you would any other Windows application.
The perfered method of running the application is to have it invoked
automatically each time you log in. See below.
If you want CPUMETER to be run automatically every time you start
another windows session or re-invoke the program, add the filename
CPUMETER.EXE to the LOAD= line in the [Windows] section of the WIN.INI
section. If you are unsure of how to go about this, look it up in
the Windows User's Guide.
The first time you run CPUMETER you will be told that it is
"Calibrating". This means that the application is figuring out how
fast your CPU is running Windows in the current configuration you
have selected. If you change your configuration and/or add new
hardware, you should recalibrate CPUMETER.
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* *
* WARNING: *
* *
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While the calibration is in progress, you should not do ANYTHING
with the computer, like type at the keyboard or move the mouse, and
in addition, you should have no other applications running,
especially DOS sessions.
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GLOSSARY
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CPUMETER
Refers to the main application program, CPUMETER.EXE, while it is
running.
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LIMITATIONS
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Because Windows does not time-slice its applications, it is
impossible to be completely accurate measuring the load on the CPU.
CPUMETER goes a long way to trying to be accurate, but it can't do it
100%.
Also, because of the above, another Windows application can hog
the whole CPU for many seconds, if it wasn't written properly, and so
CPUMETER will report 0% or some other number and freeze there, even
though, (and actually because), the other application is running and
obviously chewing up CPU time. Unfortunately, there is no way for
CPUMETER to detect that some snobby program is going to heist your
CPU for an unfashionably long interval, so you will have to live with
this limitation forever. (Or at least until "they" release a
time-slicing version of Windows that allows its applications to have
separate threads running. Ha, try to get them to do that, why don't
you. Go ahead, try calling them and suggesting the above as a
possible feature in the next release. Go ahead, try it. Know what
they'll tell you? Buy OS/2. Yep, that's good 'ol Microsoft
marketting strategy for you. Now if *I* were King for a day...)
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BUGS
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What? Bugs??? My software has bugs???????? You must be
incorrectly interpretting a feature.
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THANKS
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Thanks.
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