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From: sdl@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (Litvintchouk)
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Subject: Required values of DURATION'SMALL
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Date: Mon, 23-Jun-86 21:13:31 EDT
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The Ada LRM (section 9.6) states, "...the smallest representable
duration, DURATION'SMALL must not be greater than twenty milliseconds
(whenever possible, a value not greater than fifty microseconds should
be chosen)."

What is the rationale behind the choice of values like "twenty
milliseconds" and "fifty microseconds"?  Was there a real reason for
these restrictions, or were the values just "picked out of the air" as
seeming reasonable?


Steven Litvintchouk
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