It would be great if this could be one of the 2.5 goals/projects.
it would make all sorts of fun and useful timed event services easier to
implement and provide (potentially) microsecond resolution as opposed to the
current 10Ms.
plus, we would only get one "sysclock" timer interrupt per process quantum
instead of 10.
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