G'morning Jasen, 

 JB> the floating point value "timer" is accurate to about
1/18 of a second

 JB> more precision that that is dificult in interpreted basic,
 JB> but in C I have timer code accurate to better than 1
 JB> microsecond (by reading the registers of the timer chip).

Yeah ... somewhere I have an Assembler routine that works off the 
timer chips registers,  buried on an archive hard drive somewhere. 
I was just curious to see how my ancient laptop measured up,  so 
my `A$=time$' and `?a$,time$' was enough to make me smile...

:-)
 
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