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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
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Subject: Re: Duration vs. Ada.Real_Time
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 06:13:15 GMT
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In article <x7vd7d7bhgt.fsf@smaug.pushface.org>,
  Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> wrote:

> However, you can change the OS tick to 1 mS by writing
>
>   set hires_tick 1
>
> in /etc/system

Do you suppose that those who favor Duration'Small matching
the tick would want this OS command to magically change the
value of this static constant retroactively? :-)



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