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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: "Real Time" Clocks
Message-ID: <627@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Sep-87 06:16:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: sugar.627
Posted: Thu Sep  3 06:16:42 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 17:38:20 EDT
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Keywords: clocks timers incorrect.usage pedantic.explanation ack.oop

It seems to be happening to the Amiga, too. People are calling clock/calendar
chips "real time clocks".

The "Microherz Timer" (which in itself is a misnomer) is a real time clock...
a clock that interrupts running programs on a real time basis. A clock/calendar
device is a "Time of Day" clock, or just a "Clock/Calendar".

Usually it's also a "digital watch chip".

As for the Microherz Timer... a microherz is a million second long period. What
they should be calling it is a "megaherz" or "microsecond" timer.
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