[time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 61, Issue 77

Jean-Louis Oneto Jean-Louis.Oneto at obs-azur.fr
Wed Aug 19 21:41:31 UTC 2009


I also remember that one of Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) VMS Operating 
System was defined in microfortnight...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Sims" <holrum at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 61, Issue 77


>
> Alas, yes,  the RCH is no longer politically correct.   It's slightly more 
> acceptable cousin is now the RPH.
>
> I have a friend that does monomolecular / monoatomic layers.  His 
> definition of a thin film is a gnats ass spread over the Rockies...
>
>
> On the subject of small things.  Let's replace that ugly unit of time, 
> the nanosecond,  with a swooptier measure of time...  the femtofortnight. 
> I once worked for a company that had utterly insane paperwork requirements 
> for each project.  Clearly nobody ever read  any of it.  I would do a 
> design in a week and the spend the next year twiddling my toes waiting for 
> the rest of the company to catch up with the paperwork.  I wrote a spec 
> for a board where all the timing was specified in ffn.  It was years later 
> before anybody ever noticed and asked what the heck an ffn was.
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