From: tronic2 AT sci DOT fi DOT don'tSPAMmeBUTremoveTHIS (Lasse Kärkkäinen / Tronic)
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Subject: Re: Reading MSR (Athlon multiplier)
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 23:07:12 GMT
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Yep. That's not a problem, because I'm develeloping a benchmark for
DOS-use.

What do you think, could I get more accurate times by using RTC
(instead of Allegro's timer) and a bit longer period?

Allegro's timer almost stops on alt-tab -switch to another window. 

I still need to read MSR, do you (or anyone else) happen to know how
to?

>It's okay to have a certain dispersion of values because you run this thing
>under windows. If you ran it under DOS or in your own OS - you can get a
>very precise value.