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Subject: Re: Hiarcs6 runnning fast under Windows NT Server 4.0

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 04:39:45 03/18/99

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On March 17, 1999 at 13:19:34, Ashish Mukharji wrote:

>Hello,
>
>The clock on Hiarcs6, which I have installed on an IBM Thinkpad 770 running
>Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0, runs very fast - at times, I can see that at
>least two seconds are decrementing on the clock for each second of "real time."
>
>I don't know / can't tell the exact magnitude of the speedup, whether it is
>by a constant multiple (I don't think so), or whether it happens all the time
>(I don't think so).
>
>Can anyone give me an idea what's going on and how I can fix it?
>
>Thanks!
>
>-ashish

Hello Ashish,
I have seen this on several of the new programs.  I think it is OK.  If you
watch close you will see that sometimes the clock fails to decrease by 1 second
and then next time it will decrease by 2 seconds.  I think the program is just
not updating the clock on every tick but keeps time very accurate.  Just put it
on 5 hours / move or something like that and time it with your watch for 5
minutes.  I think you will see that it's clock will be accurate for 5 minutes
within the 1 second occasional skip.
Jim Walker



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