From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP

On 2024-12-04, Arne Vajhøj  wrote:
> On 12/4/2024 8:37 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> What is the actual resolution of timer events queued using the
>> sys$setimr() system service ?
>>
>> NOTE: this is about when the timer becomes eligible to fire, not when
>> it actually does, given that VMS is not a hard RTOS.
>>
>> The base VMS time format is in 100ns units, but I couldn't see anything
>> about the units actually used when firing timer events. Is it the same
>> as the hopeless terminal driver timeouts, or is it 100ns, or is it
>> something in between ?
>
> IDS VMS Alpha 1.5 (30 years old!) says:
>

[snip]

Thanks Arne. I never even thought to check the I&DS as this was something
I was expecting to find in the normal user documentation.

Simon.

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