> On the contrary, the DECstation's undocumented I/O ASIC FCR (free running > counter) driven by the TURBOchannel bus clock is said to be much more > accurate than the DS1287 used there. And it's David L. Mills who says so, > thus we may safely assume it's true. :-) The old DEC hardware guaranteed good time quality. But thats rather unusual beyond DEC.