At 18:55 Uhr +0100 15.11.2006, Kazuyuki Inanaga wrote:
>1) 040 Mac has a good clock except PowerBook550c.
>2) 030 Mac has a slow clock. (why?)
The '030 Macs have an interrupt hierarchy where the timer
interrupts have a
low priority, which means that ticks get lost as soon as
there is any
significant I/O load. The Quadra 700 and later '040 Macs can
be switched to
a different hierarchy which gives the timer interrupts
higher priority.
Apple apparently learned from its A/UX experiences.
Powerbooks are probably closer to the '030 architecture -
are there any
Powerbooks with a 53c94 SCSI controller? I don't think so.
hauke
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