DG>  RF>   Does anyone know why a doubleword (40:6C thru 40:6F) is
DG>  RF> reserved in the   BIOS Data Area to hold the system timer
DG>  RF> ticks (18.2xxxx per second), but   only uses 3 of the 4
DG>  RF> bytes to hold the number of timer ticks?
DG>
DG> Because a simple "mov DWO PTR sys_time, eax" is far easier than any of
DG> the alternatives using only 3 storage bytes.
I'm sure the designers of the XT BIOS had that in mind :-)
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