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From: Shaw@udel.edu
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp
Subject: Re:  NTP and NOS
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Date: 15 May 91 05:37:45 GMT
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If you have been watching the ntp group you would see a few discourageing 
signs about ntp on the pc.  The pc is meant mostly as a personal desktop
machine with not much knowledge in its operating system and bios for talking
to a network.   That does not mean it is impossible to have ntp on a pc but
it should be implemented in terms of using the protocal format for a new 
pc based time system.  Not sure what the circumstances of your attempt are 
but attempting to port the xntp deamon to the pc environment if just for 
hardware reasons not to mention operating systems would boarder on insanity.
We tried that and showed only that the next way to look is to making a 
demon for the pc from scratch which uses the ntp format when working on the 
net.  No competent attempt has been made at that.  If that is what you will
be attempting then best of luck.

Mark