In message <[email protected]>, Rob Seaman writes:
>Indeed, but "real time" already means something completely different >in computing. I had a boss who named a server "data" (after the >Star Trek character). The resulting confusion was monumental. If you really want fun, name your server "localhost" ;-) >The data type is more properly termed IEEE floating point. How >about "float" time? You could tag it with a life preserver logo. I really don't think the name is as important as the semantics. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
