[Info-vax] Timer resolution for sys$setimr() ?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2024-12-04, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
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> https://hunter.goatley.com/writing-vms-privileged-code/part-v-timer-queues/
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> has a lot of details.
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> But is about the same age as the old IDS.
>

>From that page:

|The VAX architecture stipulates the interval timer must generate a hardware
|interrupt every 10 milliseconds, or ten times per second, and the VAX
|hardware guarantees a hardware interrupt every 10 ms.

I didn't see a way to leave feedback on that page.

Simon.

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