Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!phigate!cnps!news
From: dunigan@THDSUN.EPM.ORNL.GOV (Tom Dunigan 576-2522)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp
Subject: how do you rate a CPU's clock?
Message-ID: <1152@cnps.PHILIPS.nl>
Date: 23 Jul 90 12:36:49 GMT
Sender: news@cnps.PHILIPS.nl
Lines: 11

There seems to be a certain amount of lore about whether this CPU's clock
is bad or good?  Is there a list rating the quality, precision
and such of various CPU clocks/OS clock-support (e.g., for sun,
vax, mips, ....)

failing that, how does one determine if his CPU clock is doing a good
job keeping time running ntpd?  Look at dispersions? offsets? ntp.drift? ....?
What are good/bad values for these various parameters?

thanks
tom