My Day

Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com
Wed Sep 20 08:07:08 PDT 1995



Mike McNally writes:
> Also (and note that it's been a while since I've messed around with
> PC's, but since the "architecture" remains chained to an early-80's
> design I suspect they're still the same) the PC clock frequency is
> generally pretty low.

No, it isn't actually. You can get a microsecond timer out of it. The
clock interrupts occur only infrequently, but the clock chip itself
increments very very fast, and if you wanted microsecond timings of
keystrokes there are registers that will give you what you want.

Perry






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