At 03:18 PM 8/6/03 , Michael D. Spence wrote:

>
>Evidently the 386 has a counter that can be started, then read from
>time to time to get fairly high resolution elapsed times.  This appears
>to be what the Windows stuff reads and returns, and I was hoping that
>it'd be available on NetBSD.
> 

In addition to Wolfgang Rupprecht's thorough reply, you can read a bit
about the TSC timer in chapter 6 of the Linux Device Drivers book (
http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/ch06.html ).

-Tim