Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 01:25:05 +0000 From: Anthony Naggs <tony@ubik.demon.co.uk> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "Wilkinson,Alex" <Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au> Subject: Re: jiffy. Message-ID: <0%2B3KlPAxpOi%2BIwM1@ubik.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030401100112.D31575@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> References: <200303301558.01010.evms@bu.edu> <xzpllywgxkh.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200303311629.07310.evms@bu.edu> <20030401100112.D31575@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au>
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In article <20030401100112.D31575@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au>, Wilkinson,Alex <Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au> writes >erm...what are jiffies ? http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=jiffy The last definition on the page starts: jiffy n. 1. The duration of one tick of the system clock on your computer (see tick). Often one AC cycle time (1/60 second in the U.S. and Canada, 1/50 most other places), but more recently 1/100 sec has become common. ... The Commodore PET, for example, called its 1/60 second clock tick a jiffy. Used for timing relatively short intervals. ttfn, Tony
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