Re: [GD-Windows] More timer fun!

[Rich <leg...@xm...>]

In article <9EA...@ma...>,
    "Grills, Jeff" <jg...@so...>  writes:

> We could never rely on users having such a thing, unless it was cheap enough
> to put in the box with our games.  Even then, I'm not sure we could trust
> them to install it correctly, even assuming they have an open USB slot.

It was a silly suggestion, hence the :)

> I think the better question is, why can't a $500 (or even $3000) PC keep
> decent time?

Its called backwards compatability.  The timer support in the original
PC sucked and nobody has bothered to fix it because until gaming there
just weren't any apps that demanded decent time, and if they did they
were such niche applications that people could afford to add a little
piece of HW that had the time support they needed.
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