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To: SPSEIFERT who wrote (599)11/7/1998 11:30:00 AM
From: PMS Witch   of 110645
 
Design flaw revealed by Crouch and Echlin

This was the headline in COMPUTERWORLD Nov 6th issue. It seems that these guys discovered a design flaw which causes PC clocks to have behave randomly.

They claim that if the system reads the time at the same instant the hardware is updating the registers, the system gets random garbage in SOME fields.

Further information:

nethawk.com

intranet.ca

elmbronze.demon.co.uk

Hope this helps, PW.
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