Re: A86: Re: Timings

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Subject: Re: A86: Re: Timings
From: Jimmy =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5rdell?= <yarin@acc.umu.se>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 10:42:25 +0100
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At 22:48 1998-11-10 -0800, you wrote:
>
>You also need to remember that your program doesn't get to use all 6 mil
cycles
>unless you disable interrupts - the 'software' interrupt runs approx. 174
times
>per second (or so I've heard).  The easiest way to count off a second,
>therefore, is probably to install a user interrupt that counts down from 174:

Another point which makes clocks impossible is that the processor runs
at a slower MHz rate when there is little battery left...

The interrupt is supposed to occurs approx 200 times/second, which it
does with new batteries I believe.

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References:

A86: Re: Timings

From: "David Phillips" <electrum@tfs.net>

Re: A86: Re: Timings

From: Dark Ryder <DarkRyder@cyberdude.com>

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