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From: zemon@felix.UUCP (Art Zemon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Interesting problem with timer (doc'n and impl'n)
Message-ID: <4345@felix.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Aug-87 17:08:59 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  3 17:08:59 1987
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In article <9@ipmoea.UUCP> ericr@ipmoea.UUCP (Eric Roskos) writes:
+ 
+ For a good while, I've noticed that after working with Minix and then rebooting
+ DOS, the date and time on my machine would be wrong.  I first noticed it because
+ makefiles would not work due to file dates being wrong, and I thought that 
+ either there was something wrong with my multifunction-card-clone or its 
+ software, or that Minix was somehow addressing its clock and causing it 
+ problems.  Usually I'd find the date was sometime several days into the future,
+ and the time seemed to be random.
+ 
+  . . .
+ 
+ If I'm not mistaken, this means
+ the clock is left running too fast if you boot DOS by typing ctrl/alt/del
+ while MINIX is running.

I have noticed this on my Zenith Z-151 (XT clone).  If you
repeatedly execute the MS-DOS TIME command, you will see
that the time is indeed running much too fast.

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