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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo L. Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Idea
Message-ID: <5809@well.UUCP>
Date: 26 Apr 88 10:06:46 GMT
References: <8804231647.AA09390@jade.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Organization: Amiga Biotechnology Labs and Nuclear Test Grounds, Nevada.
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Summary: It won't work.

In article <8804231647.AA09390@jade.berkeley.edu> SLMYQ@USU.BITNET writes:
>The T.O.D. (Time Of Day) clocks in the 8520s on the Amiga aren't used, right?
>Would it be possible to hook up a battery and a little switching circuitry to
>one of the 8520s and use it's TOD clock as a battery backed clock?  Or would
>a RESET signal clear it?  Would it be at all practical?
>
	It'd be practical and wonderful, but it won't work.

	I had this same idea about a year ago, and wrote a quickie program to
discover if it would work.   As it turns out, hitting Ctrl-A-A asserts
RESET, and RESET resets the 8520's Time-Of-Day clock.  Personally, I think
it was a mistake on the part of the designer to have done that.

	Sigh....

P.S:	This was how I found out that there's no CloseResource() call in the
system.  So what am I supposed to do with something that I've
OpenResource()d?
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