[Info-vax] $SETIMR granularity

Steven Schweda sms.antinode at gmail.com
Mon Oct 24 23:22:07 EDT 2011


On Oct 24, 9:49 pm, Snowshoe <n... at spam.please> wrote:

> Does $SETIMR have the same (1/100 second) granularity on Itanium and
> Alpha as it does on the VAX?  [...]

   Is there some ambiguity in the documentation?

> [...]  Or is it 1/1024 second due to the clock speed?

   Due to which "clock speed"?  How?  Why?

> (if 1/100 second, how is this done, 1024 doesn't divide 100 evenly)

   From where is this "1024" coming?

   What are you talking about?



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