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Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

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Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

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Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 10 months ago

Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985.

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