On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:23:53 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:02:57 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: > >>On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:33:36 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> >>>I shudder whenever I read in the PoOp that bit 31 of >>>the TOD clock toggles once per megamicrosecond (sic, IIRC). >> >>Ummm..... >>I think it has always said that bit 51 increments every microsecond. It >>says that bit 31 increments every 1.048576 second. >> >OK. Not in the PoOp, but certainly in the diagram on p. 3 of > > International Technical Support Organization > Server Time Protocol Planning Guide > December 2006 > SG24-7280-00 > > http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247280.pdf
ARRRGH!!! "This interval is sometimes called a mega-microsecond." oh, really? By whom? -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
