In message <[email protected]>, Bruce Griffiths writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> In message<[email protected]>, "Bob Camp" writes: >> >> >>> Is the CPU strictly an I/O machine or does it do any of the timing for the >>> counter? >>> >> All the counting is hardware. >> >Not so for the 5370A (was this changed for the 5370B?), the 16 bit N0 >counter length is extended in software when and if required.
Yes, but that is a rather low frequency deal, I wouldn't call that timecritical at all. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
