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From: "David G. Lawrence" <dg@dglawrence.com>
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Subject: Re: Is the TSC timecounter safe on SMP system?
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> Can someone please elaborate on the acronym TSC ? 
> Please no comments about google etc been there done that and it wasn't useful.

   TSC is the Time Stamp Counter. It is a profiling counter internal to
modern Pentium processors that counts core frequency clock ticks.

-DG

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