TOPS-10 Monitor Calls Manual Volume 2 AA-K039D ... - Trailing-Edge

SLEEP [CALLI 31]
22.158 SLEEP [CALLI 31]
FUNCTION
Causes your program to become dormant for a specified number of
real-time seconds.
CALLING SEQUENCE
MOVE I
SLEEP
return
ac,seconds
ac,
In the calling sequence, the program supplies the seconds, which gives
the number of seconds that the job is to sleep. If you give seconds
as 0, the program will sleep for one clock tick. The maximum sleep
time is 68 seconds (or 82 seconds for systems using 50 Hz frequency) .
If you require a longer sleep period, use the HIBER monitor call.
RETURN
Your job becomes dormant and the monitor sets the JBTST2 bit, JS.SLP.
The monitor will clear this bit when the specified time has elapsed
and your job becomes runnable again. All potential job-wakers should
check this bit and wake a job only if the bit is cleared.
EXAMPLES
MOVE I
SLEEP
T1,1
T1,
This code puts your job to sleep for 1 second.
RELATED CALLS
HIBER
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