Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 11:25:13 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Ian Miller <itmiller AT dra DOT hmg DOT gb>
cc: DJGPP workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Exact timming II
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On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Ian Miller wrote:

> It looks as though Win95 uses/resets the timer itself
> every so often. I tried reducing the wait interval.
> At 1ms (or so) the result was consistently positive
> (780 or so). But from 2ms onwards these daft negative
> answers turn up regularly.

Right, that is exactly what I see on a Windows 95 machine down here.  
Does anybody know what part in Widnows resets the timer, or why, or how, 
if at all, this can be disabled?