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Article #23026Re: Assembler routine that generates random numbers?
From: Michael Park
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:02
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:02
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nino@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Marinos Yannikos) writes: >: I remember (it's a long time since I disassembled the code) that when the >: XBIOS routine is first called, the generator is seeded with a new number -- >: but I forget where that number comes from. >I'm quite sure they come from the 200HZ timer (from the system variable), >but I'm not 100% sure... The initial seed comes from _frclock, according to the docs I have. --m
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