Ah! The very height of elegance in a good design [imho] : no upgrade needed.
-CH On Jul 19, 2012, at 12:40, Magnus Danielson <mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org> wrote: > On 07/19/2012 05:48 PM, Chris Hoffman wrote: >> Richard, >> >> This paper is fascinating to me. I finally understand how the TMDE/Metrology >> lab to which I continually sent my measurement equipment for calibration was >> so important. >> >> Looking back, I recall something that looked exactly like an FMS rack shown >> in the paper! It was accompanied by a make-shift cubicle with walls of HP >> and Marconi gear in various states... and a sweet, aged, bearded geek with >> trifocals... >> >> It's telling, I think, that the first FMS was built on an Apple II. > > The NIST time-scale algorithm was run on a PDP-8 with 5kWord memory. It used > to run on a pair of AT machines, but they have upgraded to a pair of 386s > now. Every 12 min they will execute for 40 s and then go back to idle > waiting. Processing-wise, there is no need to get more modern machines. > > Can't recall seeing that paper, so thanks for the reference. Had a nice chat > with one of the techs dealing with those services. Very nice folks! > > Cheers, > Magnus > > _______________________________________________ > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
