hakanson@CSE.OGI.EDU (Marion Hakanson) (09/12/90)
Dave, >Marian, > >Interesting. Maybe you need our cesium clock more than we do. Too many Dave's here. You probably intended the above for the other Dave, and not me. All we've got is wishy-washy Unix boxes here, and most of those are Suns. By the time the nice sharp cesium pulses gets through all those layers, you might as well be running a mains clock. Let me be the first to repeat that having a sharp clock resolution (as reported from clockres) is not anywhere near the same as having a "good" clock (as seen by ntpd, xntpd, or other "stability" measures). Witness the SPARCstation-1, with pretty much the same clock resolution as the RS-6000 -- we all know that SS-1's suffer from SunOS-induced clock instabilities. Marion