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From: jcd@maps.cs.cmu.edu (Jean-Christophe Dhellemmes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Next and Real-Time
Message-ID: <8206@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 90 21:00:38 GMT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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I wrote:

> I tried to use ualarm(3) to execute a function every millisecond (ualarm let
> you set up any interval between 1 and ~65000 microsecond) and found out that
> the NeXT machine can't keep up with that speed and that for any interval
> smaller than ~65000 (the max, i.e. 65 ms), ...

Of course, this is wrong, an unsigned is 32 bits on the Next, so I could
have done my test with higher values. Anyway, that's not the point, I am
still interested in numbers much smaller than 1 second or even 65ms. Even
the Amiga can do 1ms.
							* JCD
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