Beware of having him measure the baud rate of a command in clock cycles.
Without any reference of time I would say it is impossible.

Doug Butler
Sherpa Engineering


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> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of John Nall
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 9:24 PM
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> Subject: [PIC]: Can it be done???
>
>
> A friend of mine, who is a very experienced programmer, but knows nothing
> about PIC's (at least I don't think he does) has offered to make
> a bet with
> me as follows:  He is willing to bet, any amount I want to name, that he
> can write a program which can figure out the clock speed of the
> computer it
> is running on.
>
> To rephrase it, he thinks that he can figure out, in software, the number
> of MIPS of the machine he is running on.
>
> Since he is used to machines that have operating systems, with system
> clocks and that sort of thing available to users, he might be
> able to do it
> on those.  But I do not think there is any way whatsoever on a PIC to do
> this.  (No peripherals -- just the raw chip running, with his program).
>
> However, he is very experienced, and I have lost bets with him before.  So
> even thought it seems to me to be a sure thing, I am a bit hesitant to
> bet.  Can any of you experts think of a way to do this????
>
> John
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