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Re: Autocross Timing/Scoring Software

To: Paul Foster <pfoster@gdi.net>, "team.net" <autox@autox.team.net>,
Subject: Re: Autocross Timing/Scoring Software
From: "Clay Horste" <clay@metashock.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 11:07:18 -0500
Wouldn't environmental variables such as elevation, surface, humidity etc.
give more accuracy error from event to event than the hardware or OS.  I
would think that as long as precise within the same event.  I just wonder if
we are nitpicking the wrong things here.

-clay-



> All of the software timing solutions are cost effective (if you don't
> count
> the cost of the PC) and offer the driver registration and scoring, some
> offer the timing also.  Software timing will vary slightly from one PC
> to
> another based on what's in the PC, so comparing results from one region
> to
> another would not be accurate to .001 seconds.  Comparing results from
> one
> event to another would require using the same PC hardware for both
> events,
> but even then, that would not guarantee .001 second accuracy for both
> events.>>>

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