Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: affect of HZ on XENIX
Message-ID: <10329@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 8 Apr 88 16:35:11 GMT
References: <132@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
Lines: 7
Keywords: 50HZ, 2.1.3, SperryPC/IT (286)

The HZ value is the number of clock ticks per sec. It is not related to
the power line frequency in any way. On an 8086 machine it is set to
20 ticks/sec, while on a 286 it's 50.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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