-------- In message <[email protected]>, Steve Allen writes:
>UCO/Lick knows that, even with the best available version of NTP, the >sloppy (or even lack of) hardware clock on some motherboards [...] This is *UTTER* bull-shit. There is usable clock-hardware on all PC boards all the way back to the original IBM PC, and Microsoft has never claimed that lack of hw was the reason for this. The main reason why good timekeeping support has never been a priority for Microsoft is that it would allow people to measure how ridiculous shitty their so-called Operating Systems are at all sorts of low-level activities. Recent versions of Windows have grown various hack-ish API's, mostly because there was no to play video without it. Most of these API's are not good for anything else. -- 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. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
