From: "Alexei A. Frounze" <dummy_addressee AT hotmail DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP timer slowdown
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 08:31:41 -0500
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OK, this is not a slow-down. That's right. But I've never seen things that
guy tell about extended BIOS functions.

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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
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>
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Alexei A. Frounze wrote:
>
> > Timer itself generates IRQs at a constant rate, right. But the DOS
program
> > being run under windows (or with presense of such things as SMARTDRV)
can
> > not have a perfect time measurement and perfect cycle measurement.
>
> As you can see from the message posted by Damon Casale, I wasn't
> talking about the code timing, I was talking about system clock
> slow-down apparently caused by a file-compression program.
>
> > Try to reread my post and see why.
>
> I think I understood the first time, that's why I wrote what I wrote.