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echo: os2prog
to: Stephen Lindholm
from: Peter Fitzsimmons
date: 1994-12-29 17:08:34
subject: DosStartTimer

SL> I'm curious: Why is 18.2Hz retained as the timer frequency?

Making it faster would mean more time is wasted by the timer ISR; same with
the length of a timeslice -- the shorter it is means that the schedular has
to run more often (therefore less real-program work gets done).


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