Date:	Sun, 3 Jan 1999 10:36:58 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Christian Hofrichter <ChristianHofrichter AT gmx DOT de>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: timing in u sec range
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On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Christian Hofrichter wrote:

> I have sloved the problem by reading out the port 0x40.
> There you can read a counter,  coming from an quartz with 4,77
> Mhz.(14.317.180 Hz)
> After a division by 4 you get the counter-rate. The Timer-chip is called
> 8253/54.

DJGPP has a library function which does all that for you.  It is
called `uclock'.  You get a result that has a 840 nsec granularity.

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