From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a447112bc8b81379 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada, games and frame rate calculation References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 22:19:00 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.186.0.156 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1108851540 63.186.0.156 (Sat, 19 Feb 2005 14:19:00 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 14:19:00 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8426 Date: 2005-02-19T22:19:00+00:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote: > I still don't understand. If the base clock sends > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - and a divided by 3 clock then sends > --- --- --- --- --- --- (where "---" is actually a solid line) > the only opportunity I see for noise is when the slower clock's transition > slightly lags the other. But that lag is less than one tick of the fast > clock, and thus could only be noticed if you had a measuring instrument > with a resolution faster than the base clock - which is supposed to be > the fastest clock in the system. I can't claim to really understand, either. I'm just repeating what I've read. See http://comscire.com/Products/PCQNG20/ I would think an open-source implementation of this concept would be desirable. -- Jeff Carter "Sir Lancelot saves Sir Gallahad from almost certain temptation." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 69