lkml.org 
[lkml]   [1998]   [Jul]   [11]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: Future time
On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 08:38:44PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> But.... they're gonna be called 430MHz Pentiums. It's a shame to throw
> away that kind of power because the machine can't keep time!

Sheesh! How much can a quartz crystal cost, $0.50 or so? What a waste.

Perhaps in the infamous tradition of win-printers and win-modems, this
should be referred to as a win-timer. "The clock's grossly
innaccusrate 'cause its got one of those broken win-timers, but by
burning a few extra CPU cycles, Linux can compensate."

-- John Kodis.

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.altern.org/andrebalsa/doc/lkml-faq.html

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:43    [W:0.072 / U:0.360 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site