Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site tove.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!umcp-cs!tove!mark 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 References: <124@osu-eddie.UUCP> Reply-To: mark@tove.UUCP (Mark Weiser) Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD Lines: 9 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. -- Spoken: Mark Weiser ARPA: mark@maryland Phone: (301) 454-7817 CSNet: mark@umcp-cs UUCP: {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!mark USPS: Computer Science Dept., University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742