On Tuesday 06 May 2003 06:23 pm, John Nall wrote:
> 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.

 [snip]

> 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????

Yes. The EEPROM write is fairly predictable on a given kind of PIC.
You can use a timer to time it.

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