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card_zero
5 months ago
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We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes
Should be the etymology of
trice
(but isn't). Odd omission from English.
Commodores had a 1/60 second "jiffy" for timing interrupts, that's all I could find.
thaliaarchi
5 months ago
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Unix V1 also used 1/60 seconds
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Commodores had a 1/60 second "jiffy" for timing interrupts, that's all I could find.