> On Sun, 4 Jan 1998 17:26:42 -0500 Tom Sgouros writes:

>>Does anyone have any clever ways to generate essentially random long
>>intervals (between 1 and 30 minutes).

>On Mon, 5 Jan 1998 01:23:06 -0500, Mike Keitz wrote:

> There are two parts to this problem, generating a random number and
> timing a long interval.

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> A pseudorandom generator should be "seeded" with a random
> number after reset.

Ok then, how about a hardware way to make the seed?  I would like a
slightly higher quality random number generator than I can get by
putting the seed in ROM.  And does anyone have a reference for an
eight-bit pseudo-random number generator?

-tom

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