My favorite part of that was the historical mix-up - the Qeng Ho, and presumably the rest of humanity, assumed that the Unix epoch marked the moon landing, which was only six months' off!
“The word for all this is ‘mature programming environment.’ Basically, when hardware performance has been pushed to its final limit, and programmers have had several centuries to code, you reach a point where there is far more signicant code than can be rationalized..."