Microfortnights

From: Huw Davies <H.Davies_at_latrobe.edu.au>
Date: Sat Oct 24 22:01:46 1998

At 09:50 AM 20-10-98 -0400, CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com wrote:

>Why do you have to remember when you have VMS HELP available? :-)

Hey, that's cheating :-) You're also luck that TIMEPROMPTWAIT starts with
TIME. As far as I remember, wild carding within SYSGEN is not exactly
optimal. Wildcards match the first occurrence....

The story I heard about uFortnights was a bit of an "in joke" within VMS
development. There was obviously a concerted effort to make VMS
documentation as dry as IBM stuff is perceived, so the developers put up
this new unit to see how far up the chain of cleansing it would go before
being "expunged". I hear that there was some surprise and embarrassment
when it escaped to customers.

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