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From: gavin@mit-caf.MIT.EDU (Gavin C. H. Zau)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Concurrent processing in DOS??
Keywords: concurrent processes, parallel, data acquisition
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Date: 3 Oct 90 11:34:01 GMT
Reply-To: gavin@mit-caf.UUCP (Gavin C. H. Zau)
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	I am using a PC XT to control and acquire data from my 
experimental aparatus.  The acquisition program is written in Turbo 
Pascal 4.0.  I need to collect data that is 
	(A) continuous over the time of the experiment. 
	(B) data that is collected over a short period. 
Can anyone please advice me on how to achieve the background data
acquisition needed when I am collecting (B) type data, so that I would not 
lose the (A) type data.  So kind of multiasking or concurrent processing
would be great.  I would also like to run mutliple (B) type acquisition
at the same time, which is not possible under our current data acquisition
scheme.
	Thanks in advance.

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Gavin Zau	Dept of Chemical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA
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