Re: Ada, games and frame rate calculation

[Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>]

tmoran@acm.org wrote:

>>I've heard that there is quantum randomness in the circuits that divide
>>the oscillator to create
> 
>     Isn't there a single base clock source for the system and all other
> clocks are just base/N for some N and thus synchronous?

Read the part you quoted again. There's one source (oscillator), but the 
circuits that divide it introduce noise.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"When Roman engineers built a bridge, they had to stand under it
while the first legion marched across. If programmers today
worked under similar ground rules, they might well find
themselves getting much more interested in Ada!"
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