Re: Generating delays

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From: Antony Hodgson
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1991 13:59

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>  The sleep command in Turbo C (C++) has 1 second resolution.  Loop are not
>portable between machines due to different CPU speeds.  About the only real
>fix is to take control of the timer tick interrupt.
>

I haven't been following this discussion, but could the delay() command
(TC++) work for what the original poster wanted?  It generates millisecond
precision delays.

Tony Hodgson
ahodgson@hstbme.mit.edu

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