sdl@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (Litvintchouk) (06/24/86)
The Ada LRM (section 9.6) states, "...the smallest representable
duration, DURATION'SMALL must not be greater than twenty milliseconds
(whenever possible, a value not greater than fifty microseconds should
be chosen)."
What is the rationale behind the choice of values like "twenty
milliseconds" and "fifty microseconds"? Was there a real reason for
these restrictions, or were the values just "picked out of the air" as
seeming reasonable?
Steven Litvintchouk
MITRE Corporation
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Bedford, MA 01730
(617)271-7753
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