Re: COBOL Time of Day in micro-seconds or nano-seconds

On Fri, 30 May 2008 09:03:32 -0500, "HeyBub" <heybub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On PCs, the best resolution is ghastly, I think it's 16 milliseconds. But
whatever, you're limited to the resolution of the CPU's timer.

Although with any virtual environment, asking for better resolution
is kind of moot.
.

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