> Yeah I've noticed this some time ago, but I believe that machines which
> have a local APIC installed and operating are still less common than these
> which do not. Not even counting all these non-ia32 platforms (of which
> some are equipped just with an RTC and no other timers).
Or the Indy where they hosed the timer logic such that the onboard 8254
cannot cause interrupts. Well, the cycle counter in the CPU works just
fine, so this probably was never considered worth the effort required
to fixed it.
Ralf
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