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To: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com>
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Subject: Re: how ??? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 28 Feb 2000 09:13:47 PST."
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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 12:02:29 -0800
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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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


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