Re: [time-nuts] favorite microcontroller module?

2008-02-21 Thread Morris Odell
Hi all, This is a very interesting discussion. In the light of the wide range of expertise here, has anyone interfaced a VP Oncore receiver with micro, specifically an AVR? I'm in the process of doing that and am having some difficulties. I'd appreciate some advice from anyone who has done it

Re: [time-nuts] favorite microcontroller module?

2008-02-21 Thread Mike S
At 10:41 PM 2/20/2008, Rex wrote... Mike S wrote: At 09:23 PM 2/20/2008, Chuck Harris wrote... When intel settled on the CS,DS,ES, SS architecture, they did so because it made it easy to write pascal compilers. That's no excuse. Humor? Perhaps you are saying that you are omniscient?

Re: [time-nuts] favorite microcontroller module?

2008-02-21 Thread Mike S
At 12:03 AM 2/21/2008, Chuck Harris wrote... I'm not arguing anything at all. Assembler in the form of mov x,3000 meaning x=3000 has been around from the very beginning. One could equally say move 3000,x meaning x=3000. What's your point? Intel didn't need an excuse, they were the inventors,

Re: [time-nuts] favorite microcontroller module?

2008-02-21 Thread Jack Hudler
Ah what I wouldn't give for a old TI 99xx BLWP (Bullwhip) Branch and Load Workspace Pointer... NOT! ___ 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

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble 23198-61

2008-02-21 Thread Jeroen Bastemeijer
Dear Matthew, Attached you'll find I document which I'm planning to upload to my webpage (once it is activated). The TSIP settings you mention are correct, however TSIP is used on Port 2! (Port 1 can be configured for other protocols using TSIPCHAT). The time/date problem I already figured

Re: [time-nuts] favorite microcontroller module?

2008-02-21 Thread Chuck Harris
Mike S wrote: At 12:03 AM 2/21/2008, Chuck Harris wrote... I'm not arguing anything at all. Assembler in the form of mov x,3000 meaning x=3000 has been around from the very beginning. One could equally say move 3000,x meaning x=3000. What's your point? Blaming intel for an assembler

Re: [time-nuts] favorite microcontroller module?

2008-02-21 Thread Chuck Harris
Hi Didier, .., I can use a pin that ordinarily would run an LED as a diagnostic port. I had forgotten these tricks, which were the norm 20 years ago when I was too lazy to pull the 6805 emulator. It's sort of funny, 20 years ago, I was flush with emulators, and used them for most of my

Re: [time-nuts] Setting time display on SatStat to UTC

2008-02-21 Thread Paul Christensen
I have recently acquired a Z3801A, and it has locked up OK. But the time display on SatStat is GPS time, and I can't see from the manual how to change it to UTC. Can anyone help me please? Issue the command :diag:gps:utc? If it returns 0 you are in GPS mode; if 1 you are in UTC. Use the

Re: [time-nuts] favorite microcontroller module?

2008-02-21 Thread Stanley Reynolds
I enjoy the memories this thread brings back, and the different view points that each of us had. I too had my favorites but found my self working on some strange choices. Just like today many projects that are one off the platform maybe selected for only one reason it's presence. I often would

[time-nuts] Setting time display on SatStat to UTC

2008-02-21 Thread Peter Vince
I have recently acquired a Z3801A, and it has locked up OK. But the time display on SatStat is GPS time, and I can't see from the manual how to change it to UTC. Can anyone help me please? Thanks, Peter (London, England) ___ time-nuts mailing list

Re: [time-nuts] favorite microcontroller module?

2008-02-21 Thread Mike S
At 10:17 AM 2/21/2008, Chuck Harris wrote... Sorry, but that is not so. The 68000 was a 16 bit machine, both internally, and externally, with 32 bit registers and some 32 bit instructions. Your Intel bias is really showing now. Enough with trying to change the subject. The discussion was in

Re: [time-nuts] Setting time display on SatStat to UTC

2008-02-21 Thread John Franke
Using info from K8CU; http://www.realhamradio.com/GPS_Frequency_Standard.htm Issue the command: :diag:gps:utc? If it returns 0 you are in GPS mode; if 1 you are in UTC Use the command: :diag:gps:utc 1 followed by :syst:pon to set it to UTC mode. Some units have to be powered

[time-nuts] Setting Z3801A UTC time format

2008-02-21 Thread Murray Greenman
Peter, You can set the Z3801A time format to UTC using the following command: :PTIM:TCOD:FORM F2 To return it to GPS, use: :PTIM:TCOD:FORM F2 And to query the current format, use: :PTIM:TCOD:FORM? These commands affect the format of the :PTIM:TCOD? Time query, and the way the time is

Re: [time-nuts] favorite microcontroller module?

2008-02-21 Thread Chuck Harris
Mike S wrote: At 10:17 AM 2/21/2008, Chuck Harris wrote... Sorry, but that is not so. The 68000 was a 16 bit machine, both internally, and externally, with 32 bit registers and some 32 bit instructions. Your Intel bias is really showing now. Enough with trying to change the subject.

[time-nuts] KO4BB's Manuals page

2008-02-21 Thread Didier Juges
Considering the access problems I have had with my ISP in the last couple of months, I have switched my domain www.ko4bb.com to my backup ISP. It will take a day or so for the DNS system to flush itself. In the mean time, you can access it through http://www.eds-fl.com The original site's

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble 23198-61

2008-02-21 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth Jeroen Bastemeijer at 2008-02-22 00:15... ... Attached you'll find I document which I'm planning to upload to my webpage (once it is activated). The TSIP settings you mention are correct, however TSIP is used on Port 2! (Port 1 can be configured for other protocols using TSIPCHAT).

Re: [time-nuts] Best OS for small time server

2008-02-21 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth Jason Rabel at 2008-02-21 14:14... ... FreeBSD will support a PPS signal natively. If you have a hard drive you could just run a plain install, if you want to run off a CompactFlash module then I would suggest building a NanoBSD image. It took me a few tries to get it right but I'm very

Re: [time-nuts] Best OS for small time server

2008-02-21 Thread Robert Vassar
Matthew, I live in Texas, so I have something more than a passing familiarity with oppressive heat. In essence, every watt imported into my den has to be forcibly removed 9 months of the year, if not more. I maintain a low stratum NTP server at home, sadly not stratum 1 (yet!) on a

Re: [time-nuts] Best OS for small time server

2008-02-21 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robert Vassar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : I successfully ran these network services sans network filesystems on : a 1Gb USB memory stick for about 8 months. It was completely silent, : and the total power draw was roughly 5 watts. The problem I ran

[time-nuts] Unpublished commands for Z3801A

2008-02-21 Thread Murray Greenman
That reminds me - the ':PTIM:TCOD:FORM' commands are in the manual, but the ':diag:gps:utc' and the ':syst:pon' family are not. I'd forgotten about that. I've spent ages sorting out the commands and queries for other GPSDOs (the HP/Agilent/Symmetricom Z3815A, the CIC GPSR-A and the Samsung

Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 43, Issue 53

2008-02-21 Thread christopher hoover
Chuck Harris wrote: I liked programming on Motorola 68020's. It was easy, and I never felt like I had to work at all to solve a problem. But at the same time, it was glacially slow. We got significantly better performance with the same programs running under the 386 and 486 processors of

Re: [time-nuts] favorite microcontroller module?

2008-02-21 Thread Didier Juges
Most of my projects have a serial port and a standard comm interface. Once I get that up and running, I use it for debugging. That's the point where I start to breathe better too :-) I have had my share of grief with emulators also. It was not enough that they cost $1,000's and required these

Re: [time-nuts] Best OS for small time server

2008-02-21 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Didier Juges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the mean time, -o noatime is a nice option when available, I suspect it will improve performance even on systems with fast hard drives. Setting noatime requires a reboot (or a remount). remount is cheap and easy

Re: [time-nuts] Best OS for small time server

2008-02-21 Thread Didier Juges
Atime implementation on Linux (and I suspect maybe other *nix as well) was, well, bad, maybe still is. Even if files are in the cache, the OS will update atime on the disk. There were talks of fixing that on Linux a while back, I am not sure if it has been done. I lost track. In the mean time,