On Aug 19, 8:18 am, "Dave Larrington" 
wrote:
> Innews:1e8d1f39-a970-404b-9bad-15186a0b5560@v57g2000hse.googlegroups.com,
> zymu...@technologist.com  tweaked the
> Babbage-Engine to tell us:
>
> > Heh, Almost. VAX-VMS (a largely defunct mainframe OS [1]) used
> > Microfortnights as an internal counter.
>
> >http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/microfortnight
>
> > HTH
>
> > Paul.
>
> > [1] Awaits VAX user ji-had.
>
> (Takes bait)
>
> Grrrrrr!  Get 'im, lads!

lol, I knew there'd be one or two out there.

I actually love and prefer VMS/OpenVMS over Unix, but there's
(conceptually) more work opportunities dealing with Unix/Solaris/
Linux.

Cheers

Paul 'Out of work Unix Manager' :)