How does DOS time work?

[Michael L. Kaufman]

In article <3163 at bnr-rsc.UUCP> mlord at bnr-rsc.UUCP (Mark Lord) writes:
>...
>You need some code to intercept the timer interrupts and cause every 34th
>one to be skipped.  

This could be quite dangerous.  You don't know what the timer tick is doing
besides updating the clock.  The system might (as one example) be using the
tick to control the drives.  Much safer is to update the clock, but don't do
it every 34 ticks.

Michael Kaufman