In message <[email protected]>, Bob Camp writes:
>The other answer is that DSP was not really available when the original >waveforms were developed. A modern system would not have a "must be able to >work with manual delay lines and an oscilloscope" requirement on it. Well, more that LORAN-C was a navigation system primarily intended for planes, so a high update rate was necessary. Having established that, and high stability being a component, Loran-C got (ab)used to also remotely steer clocks of low stability, for instance in the Nasa Apollo program. -- 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.
