1995-09-20 - Re: My Day

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
To: m5@dev.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
Message Hash: 285da31081bfc895a5c6d295f462faed18ba0d4a769fc95c46582d338905cd1f
Message ID: <199509201506.LAA05066@frankenstein.piermont.com>
Reply To: <9509201248.AA09892@alpha>
UTC Datetime: 1995-09-20 15:07:08 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 20 Sep 95 08:07:08 PDT

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 95 08:07:08 PDT
To: m5@dev.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
Subject: Re: My Day
In-Reply-To: <9509201248.AA09892@alpha>
Message-ID: <199509201506.LAA05066@frankenstein.piermont.com>
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Mike McNally writes:
> Also (and note that it's been a while since I've messed around with
> PC's, but since the "architecture" remains chained to an early-80's
> design I suspect they're still the same) the PC clock frequency is
> generally pretty low.

No, it isn't actually. You can get a microsecond timer out of it. The
clock interrupts occur only infrequently, but the clock chip itself
increments very very fast, and if you wanted microsecond timings of
keystrokes there are registers that will give you what you want.

Perry

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• 1995-09-20 (Tue, 19 Sep 95 21:09:35 PDT) - My Day - iagoldbe@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ian Goldberg)
  • 1995-09-20 (Wed, 20 Sep 95 03:38:58 PDT) - Re: My Day - jsw@neon.netscape.com (Jeff Weinstein)
    • 1995-09-20 (Wed, 20 Sep 95 05:25:33 PDT) - Re: My Day - Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.medford.ma.us>
      • 1995-09-20 (Wed, 20 Sep 95 08:58:33 PDT) - Re: My Day - “Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin]” <khijol!erc>
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          • 1995-09-20 (Wed, 20 Sep 95 10:11:43 PDT) - Re: My Day - sameer <sameer@c2.org>
    • 1995-09-20 (Wed, 20 Sep 95 05:49:32 PDT) - Re: My Day - m5@dev.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
      • 1995-09-20 (Wed, 20 Sep 95 08:07:08 PDT) - Re: My Day - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
    • 1995-09-20 (Wed, 20 Sep 95 10:30:18 PDT) - Re: My Day - rmtodd@servalan.servalan.com (Richard Todd)