VMS also "popularized" The microfortnight as a unit of time. In SYSGEN if you set the TIMEPROMPTWAIT value, it was in microfortnights. That would be how long th

VMS also "popularized" The microfortnight as a unit of time. In SYSGEN if you set the TIMEPROMPTWAIT value, it was in microfortnights. That would be how long the system would wait at console during a boot if it didn't have a valid time in its system clocks. Presumably your attentive operator would enter one during this interval.