On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 10:27:19PM -0500, Mark Abene wrote:

 > Granted, but if it comes down to it, we COULD always rewrite the interrupt
 > code for the Magnum to be similarly setup as it is on the Algorithmics, and
 > hence we COULD use the RTC for hardclock if need be, no?

Sure, we could... but the problem is that during heavy (or, really,
even light) disk or network activity, we'd lose a lot of clock interrupts
if we did that.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>