"John" == John Wilcock <john@tradoc.fr> writes:
John> FWIW, VMS also has at least one parameter (namely how long it waits for the John> user to enter the system time during boot if the time-of-year clock is John> invalid) whose value is measured in microfortnights. The explanation I heard for that is that it's a delay implemented by a fast busy loop, because it's before all the clock mechanisms are set up. And when they timed it out, it was "about a second", hence the obscure time unit so nobody would complain. Or rather, people would just chuckle. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/Dart consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. Still trying to think of something clever for the fourth line of this .sig