Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 18:12:48 -0500 From: Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net> To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>, R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com> Cc: John Purser <johnmpurser@home.com>, "'sean park'" <spark@cse.unsw.edu.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how ??? Message-ID: <00022918150504.00702@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> In-Reply-To: <200002292002.MAA09115@ptavv.es.net> References: <200002292002.MAA09115@ptavv.es.net>
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On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Kevin Oberman wrote: > Totally off-topic, a very popular OS of the 1980s had a system > parameter that was in units of micro-fortnights. Rather than waste BW > posting followups, it was VMS and the parameter was one that specified > how long to wait for the time to be entered on the console before > continuing with the bootstrap (TIMEPROMPTWAIT). > > I'll leave the translation of uFortnights into more common units as > an exercise to the reader. > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > I wrote a short c++ program to solve that, and the darned thing said that uFortnights were equal to uCalends / 2 ! Where's the Tylenol? -- Walter Brameld in·tel·lec·tu·al n. Someone who has been educated past his/her level of intelligence. Join the Army, meet interesting people, kill them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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