Ron Frazier (NTP) wrote:
Perhaps a silly question, but, does the "tick" that drives the OS software clock originate from the RTC or from the CPU master clock at 2 GHz or whatever? Just trying to understand how this stuff works.
On "IBM PC" hardware it doesn't originate from the 32768 Hz RTC clock crystal. On most it originates from the main system oscillator, but there is no requirement for this, and I half remember that some early PCs used a separate oscillator.
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