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Re:We'd be Better Off with 9-bit Bytes by card_zero on Thursday August 07, 2025 @07:05AM (#44822994)
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.

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Re:We'd be Better Off with 9-bit Bytes by thaliaarchi on Sunday August 10, 2025 @06:28AM (#44854205)
Unix V1 also used 1/60 seconds
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