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Re: FastTickerV rate

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In message <mpro.pjvdgw005nq9y09w5.news@pittdj.co.uk>
          David Pitt <news@pittdj.co.uk> wrote:

>Martin, on 17 Dec, wrote:
>
>> On 16 Dec in article <f1277e6757.DaveMeUK@my.inbox.com>,
>>    David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:
>> > In message <fa557d6757.pnyoung@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>
>> >           Peter Young <pnyoung@ormail.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> > > On 16 Dec 2018  David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > FastTickerV is aa RISC OS Ltd invention that hasn't (yet?) found its
>> > > > way into RO5.
>> > >
>> > > > Does anyone know how many ticks per second it generates?
>> > >
>> > > > Alternatively, is anyone running RO6 and is prepared to run this
>> > > > BASIC prog, which should tell us the rate?
>> > >
>> > > > -------- ON ERROR PRINT REPORT$ + " at line " + STR$(ERL): END
>> > >
>> > > > SYS "OS_ReadSysInfo", 6, 0, 22 TO,, speed% PRINT "Number of ticks
>> > > > per second: " + STR$(speed%) --------
>
>[snip]
>
>> Seems to return zero on 4.39 ... on VRPC if that has any effect!
>
>It also returns zero on OS6.20 RPCEmu. 
>
>Is real hardware required for this test?

Dunno, sorry.  I wish I did.

Dave

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FastTickerV rate David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> - 2018-12-16 20:34 +0000
  Re: FastTickerV rate Peter Young <pnyoung@ormail.co.uk> - 2018-12-16 21:23 +0000
    Re: FastTickerV rate David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> - 2018-12-16 21:32 +0000
      Re: FastTickerV rate Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2018-12-17 00:12 +0000
        Re: FastTickerV rate David Pitt <news@pittdj.co.uk> - 2018-12-17 07:14 +0000
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