Re: Clock interval on MIPS workstations

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From: Ted Lemon
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1991 20:56

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>From personal experience I know that this is not the best you could wish for
>if you are doing real-time measurements. An alternative would be to put a
>real-time clock module on the optional VME bus on the DECstation 5000.

Gack!   That sounds like *serious* overkill!   Why not just put one on
the TurboChannel?   The amount of electronics that you'd be adding to
your DS5000 to perform this simple little function is frightening to
contemplate...

			       _MelloN_

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From: mellon@nigiri.pa.dec.com (Ted Lemon)
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Subject: Re: Clock interval on MIPS workstations
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