Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Jul 1999 14:05:59 +0200 (CEST) | From | Eric Lammerts <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] HZ==100 assumptions |
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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.
Eric
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