I also remember that one of Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) VMS Operating
System was defined in microfortnight...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Sims" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
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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