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From: grahams@ausonics.OZ (Greyham Stoney)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: real time clock chips
Message-ID: <20@ausonics.OZ>
Date: 17 Aug 88 01:45:26 GMT
Organization: Ausonics Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia
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in article , peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) says:
> 
> This is, of course, a time-of-day clock. A real-time clock is a circuit
> that provides precisely timed interrupts to the CPU. Wasn't it IBM that
> first came up with this particular misnomer?

Sorry. Have a look at, say, the 146818 RTC (yes, RTC) data sheets.
						Greyham

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