On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 08:19:12AM -0500, Mark Abene wrote:

 > I revise my previous statement, and it's good news.  The RTC *can* be used
 > for the jiffy (hz) clock!  I was just reading the code for arc/algor, and
 > the Algorithmics branch does exactly this.  I'm excited.  I was just reading
 > the specs sheet for our DS1287 rtc chip, and it provides a periodic clock
 > interrupt at rates from 500ms down to 122us.  Which makes it perfect for our
 > needs!  So again if the MCT ADR interval timer turns out to be unusable on
 > the Magnum, we have yet another option, and wouldn't have to mess with the
 > cpu timer code at all.  Awesome!

Indeed, it's the same clock chip the i386pc uses, so I would be surprised
if we couldn't use that :-)

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