In message <[email protected]>, Chuck Harris writes: >A "watch" isn't exactly a challenge to an operating system.
Well, no. But figuring out correct handling of time is a challenge for operating system programmers. I have no idea how the timing code is in minix3, but I do know how much time it took me and subsequently Warner to get it right and good in FreeBSD. I'll still claim that FreeBSD is a generation ahead of all other operating systems with respect to timekeeping, if for no other reason, because FreeBSD is the only OS that truly splits the nanosecond. -- 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.
