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From: bressler@iftccu.ca.boeing.com (Rick Bressler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Re: Quality of PCs
Message-ID: <1470014@iftccu.ca.boeing.com>
Date: 27 Jun 90 23:50:18 GMT
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Organization: Boeing Commercial Airplane Group
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> While we're on the subject, I gotta bitch about AT "real time clocks".
> Why are we stuck with clocks that are less accurate than a $10
> wristwatch?  And who dreamed up the stupid term "real time clock"?
> That's like saying "picture television"!
 
If you realize that it came from IBM and that the clocks on the 'big' 
machines can return either 'vitrual time' or 'real/wall clock time' it 
makes a little more sense.  
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