Re: A86: Re: Timings


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Re: A86: Re: Timings




it's been said that battery power affects clock speed.
it was also covered in that whole clock mess that accurate timing wasn't
likely

-josh

On Tue, 10 Nov 1998 22:05:48 -0600 "David Phillips" <electrum@tfs.net>
writes:
>
>The Z80 in the 86 runs at 6Mhz, or 6,000,000 clock cycles per second.  
>An
>instruction is measured in t-states, or time states.  A 4 t-state
>instruction, such as NOP, would execute 1.5 million times in a second
>(though I have heard this is not exact, can anyone confirm?).
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: vween@gdi.net <vween@gdi.net>
>To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
>Date: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 8:45 PM
>Subject: A86: Timings
>
>
>>
>>How long does it take for each clock cycle?   I want
>>to make a 1 second timer as accurate as possible.
>>
>
>

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