[time-nuts] 60 Hz timing

Francis Grosz fgrosz at otiengineering.com
Mon Dec 14 16:34:59 UTC 2009


And IIRC, DEC defined 1/60 second as a "jiffy"; it was also used to do task switching on the time-sharing systems (e.g., PDP-10 AKA DECsystem-10).

                Francis Grosz


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