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If you want your pulse timing to be even remotely precise, I would suggest using a serial port. At 110 baud, a character code 0xE0 will generate a pulse that's about 54.5ms long; an 0xF0 would generate one about 45.5ms long. If the serial port will support non-standard baud rates, you could specify exactly 180 baud, in which case a 0x00 would yield exactly 50ms. Using RS232 levels, the line would idle at minus (typically) 9-12 volts, and the pulse would be +9-12; at TTL levels, the line would idle high and pulse low.

Note that sending characters back-to-back will generate pulses with a certain amount of time between them. Sending 0x00 at 180 baud would yield 50ms pulses with 33ms spacing. Using other baud rates and characters would allow different spacing, though I don't know how low serial ports can go (some serial-to-USB adapters may not even go down to 180). If you can only get down to 200 baud, you could try setting 8 bits space parity and sending 0x00. That would yield 50ms pulses with 5ms typical separation.

One advantage of using the serial-port data wire instead of the DTR line is that the data wire's pulse length will not be affected by code execution. If a user program turns DTR on and then triggers a garbage collection, the DTR wire may remain set for an arbitrarily-long length of time. By contrast, if the user code sends a byte out the serial port, the pulse length for that byte will be fixed no matter what else happens in the system.
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