peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) (11/08/90)
Dave Haynie, but it could have been anyone, wrote:
> ...the A3000 got a different realtime clock...
It's not a *realtime* clock. A realtime clock is something like the CIA timers.
What the A3000 got is a new "time of day" clock.
(I'm sorry, but this sort of thing ticks me off. Like the IBM-PC bozos claiming
that their custom line-drawing character set is "ANSI graphics". The closest
thing to ANSI graphics is the NAPLPS graphics primitive. Hell, the IBM
character set isn't even compatible with the DEC vt100 character set, and the
vt100 is the most common ANSI terminal in the world)
--
Peter da Silva. `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.johnhlee@flute.cs.cornell.edu (John H. Lee) (11/10/90)
In article <7011@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >It's not a *realtime* clock. A realtime clock is something like the CIA timers. >What the A3000 got is a new "time of day" clock. This you'll have to explain to me, Peter. *Both* are realtime clocks (the TOD and CIA timers) in every sense of the word that I know of. What kind of distinction are you using? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The DiskDoctor threatens the crew! Next time on AmigaDos: The Next Generation. John Lee Internet: johnhlee@cs.cornell.edu The above opinions of those of the user, and not of this machine.