Re: Tick counter

[uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)]

In <1993May13.021329.8350@gallant.apple.com> murph@apple.com (Jim Murphy) writes:

>In article <1srmnh$jjh@altitude.HIP.CAM.ORG> Phillip Vandry,
>     vandry@CAM.ORG writes:
>>Has anyone ever left their GS on long enough to make the tick counter
>>wrap around to zero? ($FFFFFFFF ticks..)

>     Well, since this would be over 2 years without rebooting, I highly
>doubt it.

Probably not, no.  But the word processor module in AppleWorks GS has code
to handle this case so that the cursor blinks smoothly across that wrap to
zero. :)


>Jim Murphy        Apple II System Software Engineer        murph@apple.com

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