[time-nuts] Synchronizing to WWV

[Hal Murray]

rvassar at rob-vassar.com said:
> The problem with the working configuration was that the DSP code
> consumed virtually all the old SuperSPARC-II CPU's capacity.  In
> Intel x86 terms, these were roughly equivalent to a pre-MMX Pentium
> 90, so a modern system should fare much better.

ntpd on a 1GHz Via takes roughly 2% of the CPU to decode IRIG.  It's small 
enough that it's hard to measure.



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