Paul Gilmartin wrote:

>In an IBM Redbook, IIRC, this coeffecient was once called, repugnantly, a 
>megamicroseond.  This could be justified,
again repugnantly, by terminology in IBM glossaries.

Thanks for your magic comment. I finally found it by using mega-microsecond as 
a search argument.

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247280.pdf

which discuss STCK and STCKE which leads to me to Principles of Operation, 
where I see this ( repugnant? ;-D ) note too:

"Bit  position  31  of the clock is incremented every 1.048576 seconds; for 
some applications, reference to the leftmost 32 bits of the  clock may provide 
sufficient resolution."

Hmmm, now I remember properly. Thanks Paul for your kind reply, much 
appreciated! ;-D 

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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