In message <51867df4.4010...@karlquist.com>, "Richard (Rick) Karlquist" writes:
>BTW, it is important to understand that >the architecture is the key factor, not the flavor of atom. Well, somewhat. Some flavours of atoms don't work with some architectures, so for most of the stuff in reach for us, the atoms do indeed equate an architecture. The exception seems to be fountains, which can run on pretty much any alkali atom you care to feed it, and some even able to use both Rb og Cs (Built to nail the Rb frequency firmly down, as I understand it). However, there seems to be actual differences between the flavours of atoms in fountains, and USNO have picked Rb over Cs because they get better results that way. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | 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 -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
