Re: [ProgSoc] Re: erm, question...

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On 15 Sep, rj wrote:
> I am guessing it stands for 1 gigasecond.

Ber. It's that 1 thousand million seconds of Unix thing he's been going
on about. Which appararently means Unix started in 1971. Was there a
particular momentous occassion in that year that you were thinking of,
Telford? Turning it on? Distributing it? Or just thinking about it?

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