Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 08:47:28 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: clock running faster? Message-ID: <199510210747.IAA15335@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199510210623.QAA07072@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Oct 21, 95 04:23:57 pm
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As Bruce Evans wrote: > > The problem is that the 8254 clock takes about 5 usec to read (at least on > 8MHz ISA buses) while the Pentium clock takes only about 7 cycles to read. > The 8254 clock could be used as a reference to recalibrate the Pentium > clock fairly often, but this would take more programming and be slower. What about people who are playing with their "Turbo" key? :-] -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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