Re: [PATCH] HZ==100 assumptions

Eric Lammerts (eric@scintilla.utwente.nl)
Wed, 28 Jul 1999 14:05:59 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Riley Williams wrote:

> However, the standard used by MSDOS (which I assume is what you're
> referring to) is for the clock to tick ~18.2 times per second (to
> be more accurate, 65536 ticks per hour), in which case the correct

This is incorrect. The BIOS/MSDOS clock is generated from a 14.31818MHz
crystal clock divided by 12 * 65536.

Eric

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