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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: bsd4.2 on 11/785
Message-ID: <1889@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 02:57:25 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 17 02:57:25 1985
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In article <3252@nsc.UUCP> chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:

> the kernel DELAY() routine is implemented by a register countdown
> loop. ...  there really ought to be a way to build a decent delay
> routine without making processor speed assumptions...

With the 8600 support in 4.3, the `DELAY' macro now multiplies your
delay by the CPU speed factor, this having been gleaned from the
per-cpu data structures during autoconfig.
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