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"Quadibloc" wrote:
> On Saturday, March 12, 2016 at 8:31:00 PM UTC-7, J. Clarke wrote:
>
>> Bear in mind that OS/360, bloated thoough it might have seemed, ran fine
>> on machines that today would be considered underpowered in a good watch
>> today.
>
> I thought that even today, plenty of good watches don't even _have_
> computers
> in them. Even the ones with quartz crystals just need a frequency divider
> chip
> to drive the little motor.
>
> Now, they do have these newfangled things like smartwatches, and, yes,
> most of
> them would have chips more powerful than any 360, save, possibly, the
> /195.

Today, my favorite watch has 5 seconds of accumulated error in five years 
for
an error rate of 1 part in 31 536 000. (Ignoring leap years)

My cell phone and my computer are still stumbling along on CST at 14:40 CDT.