On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 22:48 +0100, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
Tue, 04 Dec 2007, by bilwalsh@swbell.net:
Somewhere in the past I read that computers are wonderful machines. Capable of great things. BUT, they are horrible clocks.
The way it was explained was that when system use was high and resources were strained the clock was the last thing to get updated. Thus, it looses time. I'm sure it isn't near the problem it was many years ago but if your a power user it still could be a problem.
don't know where you got that from, but ever since the IBM AT, PC's have had a hardware clock on the mainboard, independent of the OS or user programs. The only thing that can make those thing fail is an empty battery or broken crystal.
Certain OS made in Seattle had (have? I don't know, hopefully not) a problem with missing clock interrupts, as billie describes. It's not a question of hardware reliability but of software correctness. Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org