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From: ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Quantum ROM fix report
Message-ID: <24638@cup.portal.com>
Date: 2 Dec 89 02:31:47 GMT
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Why would they have to add a real time clock and counter to keep track
of how long the drive has run?  All it has to do is estimate run time
by counting time through the idle loop and periodically accumulate this
to a block on the disk.

						Tim Smith