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tmoran@acm.org writes:

>> Otherwise you have to compensate the deviation, which could well be as big
>> as 5 microseconds per second.

>   Where do you find PCs with such a good clock?  PCs of my acquaintance
> typically have a performance counter error of a few seconds/day, which
> is more like 5 times that bad.

We used this - http://defense.ge-ip.com/products/2113 - the clock
deviation on the datasheet was 50 ppm AFAICR.