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From: mellon@nigiri.pa.dec.com (Ted Lemon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Clock interval on MIPS workstations
Message-ID: <MELLON.91Jun10135634@nigiri.pa.dec.com>
Date: 10 Jun 91 20:56:34 GMT
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In-Reply-To: pilmeyer@utrtsc.dec.com's message of 10 Jun 91 18:50:37 GMT


>From personal experience I know that this is not the best you could wish for
>if you are doing real-time measurements. An alternative would be to put a
>real-time clock module on the optional VME bus on the DECstation 5000.

Gack!   That sounds like *serious* overkill!   Why not just put one on
the TurboChannel?   The amount of electronics that you'd be adding to
your DS5000 to perform this simple little function is frightening to
contemplate...

			       _MelloN_