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From: pilmeyer@utrtsc.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Clock interval on MIPS workstations
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Date: 11 Jun 91 13:39:02 GMT
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In article <MELLON.91Jun10135634@nigiri.pa.dec.com>, mellon@nigiri.pa.dec.com (Ted Lemon) writes...
> 
>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...

Yes, I agree. However there is one very good reason to go for a VME clock
module instead of a TurboChannel module: There is no clock module for the
TurboChannel (at least not when we needed it).

-Han