On 21 May 2007 12:33:45 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Wood) wrote: >The magnetron in my microwave oven cycles at a sub-nanosecond rate. That >does not mean it would be be suitable as a low drift clock source.
Personal computers have had built in clocks forever - but they have been cheap and unreliable. The solution was to synchronize often. I bought a program that did this calculating the lag in my modem and phone line, but nowadays it is part of the OS. I wonder how Vax's used to do this with their early acceptance of world wide systems being the norm. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
