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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Duration vs. Ada.Real_Time
Date: 01 Feb 2001 06:27:35 +0000
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Christoph Grein <christoph.grein@eurocopter.de> writes:

> > (1) On Solaris (>=2.6 or so, I think) the default operating system
> >    tick is 10 mS.
> 
> What do you mean by measuring times in Millisiemens (mS)?
> 
> 	10 mS = 10E-3 S = 10e-3 / Ohm
> 
> which definitely has not the unit of time.

::aaaaargh::

got me there :-(

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