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From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
Subject: Re: synchronizing a LAN-full of machines
In-Reply-To: billd@fps.com's message of 17 May 91 22:11:18 GMT
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In article <17835@celit.fps.com> billd@fps.com (Bill Davidson) writes:
   In article <9105171342.AA23309@volitans.morningstar.com> bob@morningstar.com (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
      I don't know why Sun doesn't provide some sort of timekeeping
      system... Perhaps it's a matter of waiting until the "research
      toys" filter down into the "real world" of commercial demands.

   I've always thought it strange too.  

I'm informed by a reliable source within Sun that

	From: DeepThroat@Somewhere.Sun.COM (Deep Throat)
	To: bob@morningstar.com
	Subject: Re: synchronizing a LAN-full of machines
	
	Sun will deliver SVR4 with NTP..  A V3 daemon if [it gets]
	done in time.

So, as I speculated, there's no sinister plot against timekeeping, and
no negligence, merely a matter of waiting until they get around to it.