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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: HZ values (was: Re: u386mon dumping core)
Message-ID: <1991May09.214743.18983@kithrup.COM>
Date: 9 May 91 21:47:43 GMT
References: <1991May4.214132.27702@cti-software.nl> <9884@suns6.crosfield.co.uk> <1991May7.180013.23250@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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In article <1991May7.180013.23250@beaver.cs.washington.edu> pauld@stowe.cs.washington.edu (Paul Barton-Davis) writes:
>Can anyone from SCO or elsewhere enlighten me as to why SCO Unix/386
>usesa HZ value (both in the kernel and as the environment variable) of
>60, and not 100 ? Or has this been changed ... or can it be ?

Backwards compatibility?  A lot of binaries might assume the value of HZ.
(Personally, I recommend using gethz() instead of a #define HZ 100.)

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