04-15-2007, 04:14 AM
is supposed to be
Yes and no. REALLY don't want to get into it but a slower machine takes more time to do EVERYTHING not just the system task which is supposed to occur once a second but actually doesn't based on interrupt status. This is from my Test Engineering days at GE, RCA, Intel and Motorola and based on what's actually hooked to the processor and the speed of those peripherals you can see some interesting
seconds.
But the model you present is an accurate one for figuring out what ryos is talking about.
What kind of engineering? Based on the sit and calculate (or plug and chug as we called it in the olden days) I'd say you were one of those unfortunate soul EE students looking to calculate anything but parasitic capacitance. YUK!!!!
Let me know what you come up with and I'll see if I can Excel it. Doing a lot with Excel now as we're using a new product called Crystal Xcelsius for creating dashboards for financial analysis and it'd be fun to do something other than figure out how the bank can make yet more money.
And yes, my wife says I often dabble in the realms of crazy and she just wishes I weren't so good at it.
Tin foil hat is now off.....
Later dude,
Joe B