On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Michael G. Schabert wrote:

> Umm, you're slightly amiss on the Mac's clock structure....I've never ever
> had to reset time on a Mac running MacOS more than 5 minutes per YEAR! and
> I've used them since the Mac Plus. My dad's SE just needed its FIRST
> battery replacement.
> 
> What you must understand is that the Mac's clock interrupt scheme was
> written for MacOS and NOTHING else. I must agree that it doesn't meet with
> un*x's "desires" for a nice clock scheme, but under MacOS, it's flawless. I
> won't buy a Volkswagen Beetle and complain that its shocks suck just
> because I can't go Baja'ing with it. It wasn't designed for that, so I
> shouldn't expect it to be suited for it. We, the NetBSD community, also are
> using our Macs for things that they were NOT designed for, so we shouldn't
> expect them to operate the way we'd like them to all the time. It's not
> Apple's fault that we're hacking the hell outta their machines.
> 
	How about A/UX - presumably either it had trouble with the clock,
	or it used some workaround that _might_ be usable in NetBSD...
	(If the former then the hw is still broken even for apples uses :)

		David/absolute

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