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!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.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: <%jaRd.2654$kU3.625@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 00:03:38 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.189.48.123 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1108771418 63.189.48.123 (Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:03:38 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:03:38 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8418 Date: 2005-02-19T00:03:38+00:00 List-Id: 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!" Robert Dewar 62