...to mean no outside influences on the on chip ring oscillator what so ever when the prior art really meant that off chip crystals could not generate the actual clocking signal that goes on to clock the CPU. Gereration is origination and like has been said before how on earth can a 30 MEGAHERTZ off chip crystal generate on on chip clock running at 3 GIGAHERTZ...it can't it can only adjust it using a mathmatical formula but at that stage you have already infringed on the '336 and you adjustment mechanism is simply an embodiment of the '336...

Beeing a laymen to this issue, the way i understand it, it is not the cruise controll of a car that runs the 500hp engine. It is controling variations of how the power is used, BUT it is not needed to run the car.

Would you consider (in a very broad view) this as a acceptable metaphor for laymen?