[time-nuts] An embedded NTP server

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Jan 2 19:37:51 UTC 2013


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In message <CABbxVHuc1CcVqa2fgY_nriNrT3PYHtP8BSi=5=bsBK9eYhLmyQ at mail.gmail.com>
, Chris Albertson writes:

>That is a valid point if you are building a one-off project.  Your
>time is worth something.  But if you plan to sell a million AA cell
>battery chargers using a 32-bit controller is uneconomical.

But that's generally not what we discuss here on time-nuts, so I didn't
feel I needed to state the obvious...

>For an NTP server I'd go with something that can run an OS and the NTP
>reverence implementation.  ARM (and others) can do that.

Actually, the OS is not important, floating point support is.


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