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jherazob@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 年前

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

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Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985.
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    I’d be interested in finding out if Harlan Stenn ever finished the paper Mills was putting together about an updated NTP.

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      We do now have PTP, which has several big improvements. But it’s a lot more involved to set up.

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