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From: rab@well.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Clarifications for the Ultra Fast Timer
Message-ID: <1177@well.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-May-86 21:37:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 29 21:37:00 1986
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Summary: USE A TIMER!

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   This whole discussion is silly.   You want to time something,
use a couple of counter chips and read them with the Amiga.  It's
utterly ridiculous to try to get accurate timing with anything
as powerful as an Amiga.   7400 series logic chips are mind-bogglingly
easy to work with, and are certainly a lot more appropriate to the
task you have in mind.
   One microsecond accuracy?  In a psychology experiment?  Be real.
You'll be measuring times in the range of several hundred milleseconds
at least; ask the prof. why the hell he needs five-digit accuracy.
I bet he doesn't.   Probably you'd do just fine with one MILLISECOND
accuracy...!


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Robert Bickford     {lll-crg,hplabs}!well!rab