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From: djb@bbt.UUCP (beauvais)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Random number generation
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Date: 7 Sep 90 12:46:31 GMT
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In article <20092@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> densond@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Dave Denson) writes:
>I need a way to generate suitably random numbers in an assembly language 
>program.


If it's non-critical, just try reading the time of day.  It is updated 18.2
times per second.  This is fine for a game, but surely isn't a true
randomly distributed set.


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