On Apr 29, 2012, at 12:41 AM, Peter Svensson wrote:

> Since the time in the rom is expected to be short, why not just spin 
> waiting for gettimeofday to change?


Why not look at what it's actually doing before getting too worked up about 
what it should be doing instead?  The ROM delay code is at:

<https://github.com/simh/simh/blob/master/VAX/vax_sysdev.c#L461>

and the platform-specific implementations of the sim_os_msec routine are in:

<https://github.com/simh/simh/blob/master/sim_timer.c>

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