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From: shannon@sun.uucp (Bill Shannon)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Csh confusion: #define HZ 100?
Message-ID: <1846@sun.uucp>
Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 02:54:12 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  5 02:54:12 1984
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> SUN picked 100hz for this.  At very usenix's various Sun employees
> and principals have admitted that this is a mistake--too much cpu overhead.

Let's get our history straight.  Bill Joy chose 100Hz.  At Sun we
decided the overhead was not worth it.  We could not convince UCB.
Sun systems run at 50Hz.

				Bill Shannon
				Sun Microsystems, Inc.