Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Jul 1999 08:38:50 -0400 (EDT) | From | George Staikos <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] HZ==100 assumptions |
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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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