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From: jchoi@ics.uci.edu (John Choi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Would like to access clock or timer chip
Message-ID: <279DF116.4783@ics.uci.edu>
Date: 23 Jan 91 20:24:53 GMT
Reply-To: jchoi@ics.uci.edu (John Choi)
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Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
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    Does  anyone know how to access a clock or a timer to get a resolution
finer than 1 tick?  I'm working on a program which needs to time the interval
between serial port data transmissions. 1 tick gives a 16ms resolution; is it
resonable to try for 1ms, considering system overhead and time to execute a
TickCounts call?  I wouldn't mind locking out other system stuff or going to
assembly language if it can be done.  Thanks.

John Choi (jchoi@ics.uci.edu)