[39590] in Cypherpunks
Re: My Day
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed Sep 20 11:09:23 1995
To: m5@dev.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 Sep 1995 07:48:32 CDT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 11:06:38 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Mike McNally writes:
> Also (and note that it's been a while since I've messed around with
> PC's, but since the "architecture" remains chained to an early-80's
> design I suspect they're still the same) the PC clock frequency is
> generally pretty low.
No, it isn't actually. You can get a microsecond timer out of it. The
clock interrupts occur only infrequently, but the clock chip itself
increments very very fast, and if you wanted microsecond timings of
keystrokes there are registers that will give you what you want.
Perry
