On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 07:14:38AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Andrew > P. Lentvorski, Jr." writes: > > >An $8.00 wristwatch has much better time accuracy that your multi-$100 PC. > > That's because the crystal in your wristwatch is cut specially so that it > has a flat temp-co at about 23-16 C, whereas the xtal in your computer > is has a gradient all the way from 0 to 70 C.
And this is easily verifiable too: just leave your wristwatch in an unheated (cold) bedroom and watch the drift. -- | / o / /_ _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
