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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
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Organization: SCADA
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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????"