>> But at least some of the BSDs run on hardware that simply cannot do >> what you suggest. > Which? Genuinely curious.
The BSDs? The only one I know is Net. The hardware? The one I know best is the KA630, the MicroVAX-II CPU (which I know rather well because I tried to build a simulator for it). I don't specifically know there are others, but I'd be a bit surprised if there weren't. (There aren't many machines I know in enough detail to know this sort of thing about.) It also wouldn't surprise me if there were hardware that could do that but on which the cost of frobbing the timer hardware outweighed the win of scheduling an unusual timer internval. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel