I found this article very helpful as I knew very little. I was smarter for reading it though it may be to basic for many:
Richard
It is basic and has at least some inaccuracies. I skimmed it and found:
"The NTP protocol was originally developed for the LINUX operating system. "
Kids these days… so much history lost.
For those under 60 revolutions of the sun: NTP and related protocols far pre-date Linux. Linux is a relatively late arriving implementation of Unix. The vast majority of intellectual property behind Linux was from prior variants of Unix; Linux was just a free, unencumbered version that was widely adopted.
Although it has a good general overview, I'm fairly sure that Dave Mills
would be very surprised that:
"The NTP protocol was originally developed for the LINUX operating system."