> Just some observations.
> 65536 ticks per hour would be approx 18.2hz, which definitely
> can't be true.
It's not hard to check that out and find that it IS true. For many
years, the biggest complaint about the IBM PC and its clones was that
the system heartbeat was so slow, and people had to play tricks to get
a decent interval timer. That's also not hard to prove.
Incidentally, the reason for that 65536 ticks per hour was because of
the way IBM's programmers designed the system timer - one word to
count the number of ticks, and a second to count the number of hours
that had passed...
Best wishes from Riley.
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| There is something frustrating about the quality and speed of Linux |
| development, ie., the quality is too high and the speed is too high, |
| in other words, I can implement this XXXX feature, but I bet someone |
| else has already done so and is just about to release their patch. |
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