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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!vtc.tacom.army.mil!ulowell.uml.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news.zeitgeist.net!Market.NET!news.hh.sbay.org!piglet.amscons.com!not-for-mail From: michael@piglet.amscons.com (Michael Bryan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish Date: 18 Aug 1995 13:40:00 -0700 Organization: Amstadt Consulting Group, San Jose, CA Lines: 13 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <412tr0$1p2@piglet.amscons.com> References: <405hjb$llr@news.jhu.edu> <40g7s4$eut@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <40nfjb$f43@centralnews1.Central.Sun.COM> <40qg1j$g2m@westnet.westnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: jaco.sj-coop.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.sun.admin:51388 comp.unix.solaris:43806 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:621 Christopher X. Candreva <chris@westnet.westnet.com> wrote: > >If you still have access to a VMS system, and it has datatrieve, fire it up >and type "help wombat". > >Quite amusing. My favorite in VMS was one of the tunable system parameters (I don't recall which one anymore), which was measured in units of "microfortnights". It happens to be just over a second (1.2096 seconds, to be exact.) Somebody was seriously bored that day. ;-)