In message <[email protected]>, Colby Gut ierrez-Kraybill writes: > >I'm trying to get to the bottom of whether or not any computing >equipment made around the advent of UNIX systems (or any time-slicing >system) used the mains cycles of 60Hz as phase lock for the internal >system clock.
They sure did. Digitals PDP computers had a counter register which counted mains-cycles as the only sort of real-time-clock. -- 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.
