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Subject: Re: Accurate time clock? 
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Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 04:55:08 -0700
From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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How accurate is the pentium clock register:

I found this in /sys/i386/isa/clock.c:

#if defined(I586_CPU) || defined(I686_CPU)
        if (cpu_class == CPUCLASS_586 || cpu_class == CPUCLASS_686)
                wrmsr(0x10, 0LL);       /* XXX 0x10 is the MSR for the TSC */
#endif


Thank you,
	Amancio