At 8:47 AM +0200 7/2/05, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Tom Van Baak" writes:
PHK - do you have any anecdotes on how well NTP
works under primitive OS's like DOS?
"not at all"
DOS timekeeping is restricted to the 18.2Hz i8254 counter and that
is far to crude for the NTP algorithms.
Tom,
There's hope your old DOS PC yet. While browsing Ebay, I stumbled
across this big ovenized color-burst oscillator:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7527538461
It could easily be multiplied by 4 to make the canonical 14.318 MHz
PC clock, so your DOS machine could be made to work at high stability
and reasonable accuracy.
Not as good as a maser-clocked PC, but close.
--
--David Forbes, Tucson, AZ
http://www.cathodecorner.com/
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