[time-nuts] An embedded NTP server

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu Jan 3 08:54:58 UTC 2013


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In message <50E4EC50.1030207 at earthlink.net>, Jim Lux writes:
>On 1/2/13 5:34 PM, Tom Harris wrote:

>I think the dividing line might be [...]

I would say:  When you need TCP/IP.

USB (unless it is ether-over-usb) is trivial to do in "big-loop" but
a TCP/IP network stack is not.

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