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SubjectRe: [PATCH] HZ==100 assumptions


On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Eric Lammerts wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Riley Williams wrote:
>
> > However, the standard used by MSDOS (which I assume is what you're
> > referring to) is for the clock to tick ~18.2 times per second (to
> > be more accurate, 65536 ticks per hour), in which case the correct
>
> This is incorrect. The BIOS/MSDOS clock is generated from a 14.31818MHz
> crystal clock divided by 12 * 65536.

14318180/(12*65536) = 18.20650736490885416666... (cycles/s)




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