Thanks to everyone who responded, I appreciate the help! Thx
especially to Alex, I feel I understand wha I needed to a little
better.
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On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 12:59:57AM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> hi folks,
>
> ok... this is way OT. but I thought I'd put this question to the
> most knowledgable group of people I know...
>
> I have to give a lecture on the history of timekeeping technologies.
> I want to end with late c.20/ ear
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 00:59 -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> puttingthe lecture together I realized I don'trelaly understand why
> it's important for computer networks to have fine-grain
> synchronization. So I thought I'd ask some geeks (as my sig says, I'm
> only a hemi-geek): why does a network nee
On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 08:56:44 -0600, Alex Malinovich
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> Modern timekeeping systems have primarily been put in place for the
> benefit of the humans using the computers, not so much the computers
> themselves. The reason that things like NTP are so accurate is not
> because
Icebiker writes:
> If clocks are wildly out of sync, some software ... will hiccup on the
> time warps.
Make, for example.
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On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 00:59 -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> hi folks,
>
> ok... this is way OT. but I thought I'd put this question to the
> most knowledgable group of people I know...
>
> I have to give a lecture on the history of timekeeping technologies.
> I want to end with late c.20/ early c21
ile) feeds. Although such systems
may not be "real time", a 5 minute time warp can make for funny reports.
/icebiker
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>
> On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 00:59 -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> > hi folks,
> >
> > only a hemi-geek): why does a network need careful clock
> > synchronization?
>
> It's applications & humans that need/want c
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 00:59 -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> hi folks,
>
> ok... this is way OT. but I thought I'd put this question to the
> most knowledgable group of people I know...
>
> I have to give a lecture on the history of timekeeping technologies.
> I want to end with late c.20/ early c21
hi folks,
ok... this is way OT. but I thought I'd put this question to the
most knowledgable group of people I know...
I have to give a lecture on the history of timekeeping technologies.
I want to end with late c.20/ early c21 technologies of synchronized
timekeeping. GPS is one obvious examp
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