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- From: bcwhite@babbage.uwaterloo.ca (Brian C. White)
- Subject: Re: Milliseconds with OS9?
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1993Jan10.125850.15330@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:05:00 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan10.125850.15330@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> slotosch@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Oscar Slotosch) writes:
- >I started with a problem in the new year.
- >I want to have a precise clock on my OS9-System to measure within some
- >technical processes. The clock should be able to "show" milliseconds.
-
- This is a pretty vague question. What type of hardware are you running on?
- If your hardware has a timer chip that measures in milliseconds, then
- yes, you can read milliseconds. If you have no such timer, then no.
-
- You may have to "cheat" to read the timer because OS-9 only keeps time
- based on the number of "ticks/second" it gets. On many systems this is
- 100t/s, though it does go higher. (By cheat, I mean address the hardware
- directly instead of going through a proper driver.)
-