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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.astro,comp.dcom.modems,comp.misc,rec.ham-radio
Subject: Re: N.B.S. Time Service
Keywords: Time Ticks
Message-ID: <912@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 88 20:18:20 GMT
References: <455@trane.UUCP> <4691@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <585@otto.COM>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
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In article <585@otto.COM> glenn@otto.UUCP (Glenn Scott) writes:
, awpaeth@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Alan Wm Paeth) writes:
<
<>As I recall the current telephone number arrangement is truly by
<> "land-line" -- the NBS has arranged with Bell that the signals not be
<> routed via satellite, as the speed of light path delay becomes a
<> significant fraction of a second.  These guys are always "on guard for
<> purity", and seem to do a good job at that.
<>
<>   /Alan Paeth
<>   Computer Graphics Laboratory
<>   University of Waterloo
<
<  This doesn't make sense to me, so I'm not sure you're saying what I think