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Re: Tick counter
- Subject: Re: Tick counter
- From: robm@ecr.mu.oz.au (Robert_Paul MUELLER)
- Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 03:02:22 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Dept. Engineering Computer Resources, Melbourne Uni.
- References: <1srmnh$jjh@altitude.HIP.CAM.ORG>
- Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU
In article <1srmnh$jjh@altitude.HIP.CAM.ORG> vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry) writes:
>Has anyone ever left their GS on long enough to make the tick counter
>wrap around to zero? ($FFFFFFFF ticks..)
Hmm, 2^32 /( 60* 60 *60 * 24 *365) = 2.27 years (to 2 dp)
Thats a long time ... especially since rebooting resets the counter to 0.
Rob
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