Re: BIOS/CMOS clock

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From: bmarcum
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 00:00

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On 1997-12-09 efd@spamless.mindspring.com said:
   >What you're getting is the BIOS tick count.  If this count is
   >correct, it can be used to reset the DOS clock.  It's fairly easy
   >to figure the time from the tick count, there are 65536 (2^16)
   >ticks per hour.

I always wondered where they got that weird 18.2 ticks per second!

Bill Marcum

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Date: 1997/12/12
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