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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal 5.0 and GetTime
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Date: 16 Dec 88 09:53:25 GMT
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In article <45794@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>, spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) writes:
}Holly,
}
}The PC's clock is only updated 18 times per second, so the "time" that
}the system gives you is only accurate to +/- 55 milliseconds. 
}
}There are two ways to get finer resolution:
[...]

3.  On an AT, enable the real-time clock's 1024/sec interrupt to get
approximately millisecond resolution.


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