[time-nuts] Re: thermodynamics of time keeping

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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Richard Karlquist writes:

> He lost me when he started talking about quartz clocks utilizing 
> 
> Schmidtt triggers.  Never heard of that before and I'm going on 
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> 50 years of designing oscillators.

I bet you just forgot about it:  The classical 3-TTL-inverter
clock-generator was used almost everywhere, including in quite
a number of HP products.

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