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- From: pg@sanitas.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin)
- Subject: Re: Synchronizing clocks - Hosts & LANs
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.214002.15132@stortek.com>
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- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:40:02 GMT
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- Mark R. Ludwig (mrl@uai.com) wrote:
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- : In any event, there is a much more serious problem on an IBM: the
- : simple fact that the clock is protected in hardware. In order to
- : change the clock, a human has to do something in or near the CPU to
- : effect the change. Unless IBM has changed something, no software can
- : overcome this.$$
-
- I believe recent processors have a control register that simulates
- a press of the clock button.
-