diff --git a/src/timer.c b/src/timer.c
index d8a952b..79844e5 100644
--- a/src/timer.c
+++ b/src/timer.c
@@ -405,12 +405,7 @@ void update_timer() {
 /* TIMER_INTERVAL usec ~ 20  per second.  This should live in some
         machine-configuration
         file somewhere - it can be changed as the -t parameter to lisp*/
-
-#ifdef sparc
-int TIMER_INTERVAL = 100000;
-#else
 int TIMER_INTERVAL = 25000;
-#endif
 
 extern int LispWindowFd;