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From: jeffrey@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Jeffrey L Bromberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: RTC precision?
Keywords: RTC system clock microseconds
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.195148.4122@sci.ccny.cuny.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 91 19:51:48 GMT
Sender: jeffrey@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Jeffrey L Bromberger)
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I know that in weeks past, there was a big string on how to get an
accurate timer to deal with times less than one second.  Here's a
trick question - does the hardware keep track of time less than one
second in duration?  A VAX (and I know that a 3B1 is *no* vax :-)
keeps a register that increments every microsecond.  Is there some
sort of hidden register like that on our machine?

Thanks in advance!

j
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Jeffrey L. Bromberger
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