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On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Julian Elischer wrote:
> why do all that fiddling when there is already support for this in
> FreeBSD?
> use "aquire_timer0()"
> and set the hardware clock to whatever you want dynamically..

First answer: cause I did this three years ago ...
Second answer: cause I did  not know anyway :-)

Thanks Julian. I'm saving this one for later use.

ron

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