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From: rayaprol@star.ecs.umass.edu (Venu S Rayaprolu)
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Subject: adjtime(2) and rate of adjustment
Keywords: time, universe, adjtime(2), resloution, relativity...
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Date: 15 Jan 91 00:49:06 GMT
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I was looking at the man pages for adjtime(2) on a Decstation 3100 and
found the following.

        "Time is incremented in 3.906ms ticks on MIPS and 10ms ticks on
         VAX.  When *adjtime* is called with an argument other than
	 zero, ticks of 9ms or 11ms are used until the time is
	 corrected. A delta .............."

The values 11ms and 9ms only make sense for VAX. Could anyone tell me
what the corresponding values for MIPS are? Thanks.

Venu S Rayaprolu.
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"Time is nature's way of not letting too many things happen, all at once."