Followup to: <38E17A0A.7B904E0C@home.com>
By author: Boris Okun <bokun@home.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> Umm, Thank You!
> That was indeed the second question:-)
>
> The first one was what are they?
>
> My only gripe is with software which assumes that all TSC's have the
> same rate and claims to be working all the time. If it works on 80386,
> it can work with different TSC's. If it works on 80386 and does not
> work with different TSC's, then it is broken.
>
TSC's *DO* have the same rate (which varies from machine to machine,
but on the same machine). They are high-precision realtime clocks.
-hpa
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