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		c3833174 on March 7, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Continuing frequency deviation in the Continental ... IIRC modern operatings systems use counters in the CPU for timekeeping instead of directly accessing the RTC

Piskvorrr on March 7, 2018 [–]

Well, the CPU is somewhat beyond my ken. You are right, of course - yet I think there would be another oscillator driving the clock generator as well. Turtles all the way down ;)

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