[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bryan Henderson schrieb:
If anyone knows of a computer architecture besides ISA and stuff
designed to be compatible with it that has a HH:MM:SS hardware clock,
speak up, but all the other clocks I can think of maintain a single
counter, and it's up to the OS to derive from it UT HH:MM:SS or local
HH:MM:SS for use by humans.
The Sun SPARCstation IPC used an STMicroelectronics M48T02 chip (or
its equivalent predecessor) as its TOY clock. The data format is
YY:MM:DD d hh:mm:ss ['d' is the day of the week in the range 1-7].
I'd guess that other Sun models of that era used the same technology.
Paul
Digital Equipment VAX and Alpha computers used the chip from a wrist
watch as a TOY clock. It kept seconds, minutes, hours, days and months
but not years; the year was handled by storing the year on disk each
time the clock was reset. (If you didn't do a SET TIME or reboot your
system at least once a year, it would boot up with the wrong year!)
It's an idea that makes sense; why "roll your own" when you can get one
off the shelf for pennies.
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