From: m5@dev.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 95 10:12:28 PDT
To: Rick Busdiecker <rfb@lehman.com>
Subject: Re: `Random' seed.
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Rick Busdiecker writes:
 > FWIW, I discussed this code briefly with an engineer at Netscape a
 > while back . . . .

 > 	signal(SIGALRM,printbit);
 > 	alarm(1);
 > 	while (1)
 > 		count++;

I for one would be a little peeved if I found that my browser was
consuming all available CPU bandwidth on my workstation.  I also have
some doubts as to the randomness of this; I suspect that the kernel is
rather deterministic in its scheduling practices.

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