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Yes, through the acquire_timer0() call, does anyone know if acquiring the
timer at a raised rate for a lengthy perios of time has any detrimental
effects?

> well for a start in FreeBSD the system provides a way of raising 
> the hardware clockrate transparently on the fly to do this sort 
> of thing the PCAUDIO device routinelyu raises the clockrate to 
> 16000 Hz.
>