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From: johnhlee@flute.cs.cornell.edu (John H. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Gratuitous flame about terminology (Re: Accessing the Chips directly)
Summary: Gratuitions indeed.  Confusing as well.
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Date: 9 Nov 90 19:15:44 GMT
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In article <7011@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>It's not a *realtime* clock. A realtime clock is something like the CIA timers.
>What the A3000 got is a new "time of day" clock.

This you'll have to explain to me, Peter.  *Both* are realtime clocks (the
TOD and CIA timers) in every sense of the word that I know of.  What
kind of distinction are you using?

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