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Re: Tenths of seconds in Date

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Subject: Re: Tenths of seconds in Date
From: Norman Palardy <npalardy at great-white-software dot com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:36:12 -0600
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References: <20070629162705 dot E749A7748CC at mail dot verex dot com> <89927903-EFCB-431B-BB26-A47CCB0320D3 at tribu dot ch> <DA46D58E-44B4-4036-9C51-BDE1C4E0B628 at declareSub dot com> <00D65B1C-1BE9-4FDF-9760-20E5EC382815 at tribu dot ch>
On 29-Jun-07, at 12:09 PM, Arnaud Nicolet wrote:

> Thanks, but my question actually refers to "how" the tick value is
> provided (not the declare, but how the OS counts that; is it a
> specific process, etc).

It used to be tied to the vertical retrace on CRT's
Basically an interrupt that the system serviced
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