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Subject: | RE: uclock proposed patch |
Date: | Tue, 29 Apr 2003 09:45:38 +0200 |
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Hi, You can run NT 4.0 on a 486 machine too -----Original Message----- From: Charles Sandmann [mailto:sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu] Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 6:40 AM To: DJGPP developers Subject: uclock proposed patch For Windows 2000 and XP; I'll try a test on NT4 and on a 486 running NT 3.1 if I get a chance. Autocalibrates as needed to always keep the tic counter aligned. This might cause some jitter due to the inaccuracy of the NT tic counter, but since it's not a real time OS and multitasking who knows what really happened. Installs signal handler, should never been seen in real life (no one is running Windows NT 3.5 or earlier which were the last versions to support 486s which didn't have rdtsc). If they are, it falls back to tic accuracy. Comments? [...]
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