> Oh, yeah, the simple times before everybody learned that time is a local and observer-dependent measure. Modern computers do almost none time-based at-distanc

> Oh, yeah, the simple times before everybody learned that time is a local and observer-dependent measure. Modern computers do almost none time-based at-distance synchronization. This is a very odd response. Nothing you write here directly contradicts the parent comment and yet you seem to imply that you have a point that is the opposite of the parent comment. You seem to be going off on a tangent without addressing the main point that chips do depend on a clock firing periodically and that clock interval determining how long the circuitry waits for its pins to achieve a stable binary state before the next state transition. That was the original point of the parent comment and that point is still valid.