Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!rutgers!bellcore!tness7!tness1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: real time clock chips Summary: A nit, a veritable nit. Or, when did this become a "real-time" clock? Keywords: real-time-clocks parts Message-ID: <1263@ficc.UUCP> Date: 15 Aug 88 21:21:52 GMT References: <91@jetson.UPMA.MD.US> Organization: SCADA Lines: 8 This is, of course, a time-of-day clock. A real-time clock is a circuit that provides precisely timed interrupts to the CPU. Wasn't it IBM that first came up with this particular misnomer? -- Peter da Silva, Ferranti International Controls Corporation, sugar!ficc!peter. "You made a TIME MACHINE out of a VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE?" "Well, I couldn't afford another deLorean." "But how do you ever get it up to 88 miles per hour????"