I once worked where our normal sub-second response time had worsened to the point that one day I voiced my desire to see some sub-hour response time again. While waiting for a trivial TSO transaction to end, I computed the approximate value of a nano-century to be about three seconds. I was happy one day when my response time finally improved to a sub-nano-century.
Bill Fairchild Programmer Rocket Software 408 Chamberlain Park Lane . Franklin, TN 37069-2526 . USA t: +1.617.614.4503 . e: bfairch...@rocketsoftware.com . w: www.rocketsoftware.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of zMan Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2012 9:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: OT, but a perfect story for a Friday. On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Linda <linda.lst...@comcast.net> wrote: > Sounds like a good theory. Or maybe it got loaded onto a freight train. > Wonder how many tank cars it would take.... > The usual measure is not tank cars, but rather "kilopancakes", using the ISO 8cm pancake. Whether one kp is 1000 pancakes or 1024 depends on who you ask. And in Quebec, they call them crêpes, so it's "kc", not "kp". -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
