7 Mar
2018
7 Mar
'18
3:39 a.m.
On 3/6/18, Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
FWIW: The issue on time for BSD was somewhat forced by the ARPA community.
The 60th (or 50th) of second (much less 1 second) started to not be fine
enough for many applications. I remember a big argument at a system
seminar circa 82/83 about it. IIRC it was Mike Powell (DEMOS fame) that
was bitching at Joy about it. In the end, BSD4.2 ended up with new time
calls because of that community and started doing things in 100th of second
- which again IIRC was the best the Vax could do.
Yes--the resolution of the interval timer on the VAX was 10
microseconds (1/100 of a second).
-Paul W.