Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Jul 1998 10:22:26 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Future time |
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I have by good authority that the "next generation" of PC Mother-boards will not use quartz crystals to generate clocks. They will use ceramic resonators such as the kind made by muRata (www.murata.com). These devices are surface-mount "chips" to reduce cost, and provide only 2 percent accuracy as compared to 0.001 percent accuracy from typical crystals presently used.
Since time-keeping is important, and inaccuracies are cumulative, we will have to come up with software fixes, possibly using the CMOS timer for periodic re-calibration.
Cheers, Dick Johnson ***** FILE SYSTEM MODIFIED ***** Penguin : Linux version 2.1.108 on an i586 machine (66.15 BogoMips). Warning : It's hard to remain at the trailing edge of technology.
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