Csh confusion: #define HZ 100?

Mark Weiser mark at tove.UUCP
Mon Dec 3 12:51:50 AEST 1984


HZ is not the line frequency, it is the clock frequency.

SUN picked 100hz for this.  At very usenix's various Sun employees
and principals have admitted that this is a mistake--too much cpu overhead.
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