[time-nuts] Precision PC timing [was TEC party file format?]

[Scott Newell]

At 02:14 PM 6/29/2011, Tom Van Baak wrote:

>Out of curiosity, if anyone on the list has pointer to papers that
>show actual measurements of desktop systems used as precise
>timing devices let me know. Not external boxes or PCI cards, but
>using the OS itself as a timer. I'm sure with care 1 us or even
>100 ns is possible. For example, how accurate is the best NTP
>system? But this is still a thousand times more jitter than plain
>logic circuits and a million times worse than specialized TIC's.
>
>Reply off-line, I know this is getting very off-topic.

Please don't take that off-line!  I'd say this is pretty on-topic for 
time-nuts.  Maybe it just needs a different subject line.

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newell  N5TNL