Re: Alpha Timekeeping - Hardware Questions

Jay.Estabrook@digital.com
Fri, 14 May 1999 10:09:59 -0400

>>> Richard Henderson said:
> On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 12:15:06AM -0400, Jay.Estabrook@digital.com wrote:
> > I don't believe that any of our boxes support CPUs at different clocks
> > at the same time... ;-}
>
> Whether you support different clock rates is no the same thing
> as saying that all cpus have the exact same clock source, so
> that all cpus stay in exact lock-step. The later is required
> for the rpcc thing to continue working.

Yes, of course; I misunderstood... :-\

I'll ask around, see what the HW folks have to say...

--Jay++

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