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From: mark@tove.UUCP (Mark Weiser)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Csh confusion: #define HZ 100?
Message-ID: <57@tove.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 21:51:50 EST
Article-I.D.: tove.57
Posted: Sun Dec  2 21:51:50 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 5-Dec-84 00:58:28 EST
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Reply-To: mark@tove.UUCP (Mark Weiser)
Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD
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Summary: 

HZ is not the line frequency, it is the clock frequency.

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.
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