Subject: Re: delay?
To: Grant Stockly <gussie@stockly.com>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/05/1999 01:35:21
Grant Stockly wrote:
> I've alaways wondered what the delay value was for on the mac port of
> Open/NetBSD.  Its not in the i386 dist.

it's the number used by the m68k ports to calculate the delay() loop.  you
use delay() in the kernel to wait a specified number of microseconds, i
believe.
 
> Does it compare in some way to BOGO MIPS?

probably.  although how exactly i have no idea...

later.

colin