Found a nap() timer

Warren Tucker edp at pyr.gatech.EDU
Sun Oct 9 05:14:50 AEST 1988


>[re Xenix nap].  Its argument is the number of milliseconds
>to pause, granularized to 1/HZ milliseconds.
I'm not sure about other implementations of XENIX, but the
granularity of XENIX nap() is 20 msec for 80286 and 50 msec
for 8086/8088 implementations.  nap() is not available in
straight Sys V or BSD.

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Warren Tucker
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