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* [TUHS] Unix half-billion years old
@ 2017-11-04 21:32 Dave Horsfall
  2017-11-04 22:58 ` Dave Horsfall
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From: Dave Horsfall @ 2017-11-04 21:32 UTC (permalink / raw)


UNIX was half a billion (500000000) seconds old on Tue Nov 5 00:53:20
1985 GMT (measuring since the time(2) epoch) -- Andy Tannenbaum.

(Yeah, an American billion, not the old British one.)

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."


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* [TUHS] Unix half-billion years old
  2017-11-04 21:32 [TUHS] Unix half-billion years old Dave Horsfall
@ 2017-11-04 22:58 ` Dave Horsfall
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From: Dave Horsfall @ 2017-11-04 22:58 UTC (permalink / raw)


On Sun, 5 Nov 2017, Dave Horsfall wrote:

> UNIX was half a billion (500000000) seconds old on Tue Nov 5 00:53:20 
> 1985 GMT (measuring since the time(2) epoch) -- Andy Tannenbaum.

Aarrgghh!  *Seconds*, as the text says, not the Subject...

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."


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