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- pctim003.zip FAQ / App notes: Timing on the PC under DOS
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- This archive contains a technical document useful to PC programmers,
- with many sample programs. The document covers timing and related
- subjects on the IBM PC family under DOS. Subjects include BIOS and
- DOS functions, the BIOS tick count, hardware interrupts, timer tick
- interrupts, Port B, the 8253/8254 timer, speeding up the timer tick,
- dynamic tick periods, simulated vertical retrace interrupt, double
- and triple buffering, absolute timestamping, the RTC, other timing
- methods, reading the joystick, PWM sound generation. Freeware.
- 13400 lines, PC ASCII, 340K ZIP file. Release 3, February 1996.
- Author: Kris Heidenstrom, kheidens@actrix.gen.nz.