/* Simple wraparound timer function */
unsigned long getticks(void); /* based on gettimeofday(2) */
#define GETTICKCOUNT getticks
-#define TICKSPERSEC 1000000 /* gettimeofday returns microseconds */
-#define CURSORBLINK 450000 /* no standard way to set this */
+#define TICKSPERSEC 1000 /* we choose to use milliseconds */
+#define CURSORBLINK 450 /* no standard way to set this */
#define WCHAR wchar_t
#define BYTE unsigned char