[Coco] Battery-Backed RTCs for CoCo?

Gene Heskett gheskett at shentel.net
Tue Nov 13 12:23:43 EST 2018


On Tuesday 13 November 2018 10:56:34 Mark J. Blair wrote:

> By the way: Please correct me if I'm mistaken, but I'm assuming that a
> battery backed RTC is mostly useful to OS9/NitrOS9 users, and not very
> useful to DECB users.
>
I think this is also correct, rsdos in any form hasn't ever had a clock 
without adding it, but os9/nitros0 with its roots in the *nix world, has 
always had a clock.  Same time/day zero as the *nix, but stored as 6 
bytes in the DP(0) page of ram.

> --
> Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
> http://www.nf6x.net/



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