Subject: Re: MacII RUNNING!! (but.....)
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
From: Allen Briggs <briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/26/1996 15:13:04
> Just an idea, but doesn't Apple have global variables which say how many
> instructions/sec a machine can run? Like howmany dbt's (or is it dbf?)
> per sec, etc? If they are calculated on boot, then we could sense how fast
> the machine really is, and adjust the timing accordingly, no?

I think it's Time_DBRA or something like that.  We're already grabbing
it and the ROM routines should be using it.  Perhaps they're using
something else, though...

-allen

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