Re: Contiki 2.4 binary release for Retrocomputing

[ol.sc@web.de (Oliver Schmidt)]

Hi Michael,

>> [...]
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>> Hope my thoughts make sense to you...

>They do.

:-)

>However, a source of periodic interrupts can only be used to implement
>a time of day function if 1) the interrupts are never disabled long
>enough to lose some, and 2) the user is willing to "set the clock"
>on each boot.

The cc65 clock() function is just supposed to return the current clock
tick count - and there's additionally some way to look up, how many
clock ticks make up a second.

So we're definitively not taking about a time-of-day function here.

>If a stable RTC is desired, for file date-time stamping, for example,
>then the NSC/SmartWatch is a desirable solution.

Full ACK.

Regards,
Oliver