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by c3833174 3025 days ago
IIRC modern operatings systems use counters in the CPU for timekeeping instead of directly accessing the RTC
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Piskvorrr 3025 days ago
Well, the CPU is somewhat beyond my ken. You are right, of course - yet I think there would be another oscillator driving the clock generator as well. Turtles all the way down ;)
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