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Re: Getting and setting time for client, how?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Simicich)
Wed Jul 19 07:53:46 1995
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 21:30:17 -29900
From: Nick Simicich <njs@scifi.emi.net>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0sY7iF-00013zC@iiit.swan.ac.uk>
On Tue, 18 Jul 1995, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Is anyone working on high-resolution time for Linux -- e.g., with
> > microsecond, tens-of-nanosecond resolution or better? It's a great
>
> You've got about 800ns timer quality.
With the external timer hardware, if you have a 486 or lower. Pentiums
have the 'secret' internal timers. As reported in BYTE magazine a while
back.
Nick Simicich - njs@scifi.emi.net - (last choice) njs@bcrvm1.vnet.ibm.com
http://scifi.emi.net/njs.html -- Stop by and Light Up The World!
