From: kj@no.spam   
      
   "Björn Felten"  wrote in message   
   news:nO6ge.23897$d5.171646@newsb.telia.net...   
   >> Actually, gettime() is quantized to 18.2 ticks per second.  I leave   
   >> it   
   >> as an exercise to the reader as to why this is, although it should   
   >> be   
   >> obvious :)   
   >   
   >    I wouldn't say it's that obvious, unless you were doing   
   > programming for the old PC, where the Xtal, that also happened to   
   > produce the timing for the UART, was chosen so it could produce an   
   > exact clock cycle for the old 300, 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600 and so on,   
   > speeds of yesterdays. 8-)   
   >   
      
   That could be done using other values for the 8250 divisor.   
      
   The oscillator runs at 14.31818 MHz which is divided by three for the   
   processor   
   clock, and (more important) by four for the frequency of the CGA color   
   burst signal.   
      
   /klaus   
      
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