[Starlink] NTP implementations [was: Microstate Accounting and the Nyquist problem]

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

> Once upon a time, I sat in esr's basement hearing him rip much crud out of the
> old ntpd codebase over the course of a very few days. The shouts “What?
> WHAAAT?” and most of the other pithy comments he made never made the git log.

Yeah, it's a university project -- generations after generations of
students who hack on the codebase during summer projects.  I have some
experience with such ;-)

> Over the years following the codebase got better and better, but adoption has
> been slow.

The potential userbase might be using chrony, which has set a rather high
bar to compete against (I've seen it behave beautifully on some pretty
broken hardware).

-- Juliusz