[time-nuts] Why a 10MHz sinewave output?

[Magnus Danielson]

On 02/07/2012 02:16 AM, Bob Camp wrote:
> Hi
>
> When the customers started asking in the 1930's, generating a square wave at high frequency was not so easy….

Which is my point, the power of tradition can sometimes be stronger than 
logical reasoning for the application needs. Today many of the 
oscillators can be had in one or more of CMOS/Clipped-Sine/Sine outputs.

Cheers,
Magnus