From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Daryl M" To: <9fans@9fans.net> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 18:49:52 -0700 Message-ID: <00a101d0c8d7$b3973760$1ac5a620$@mc2research.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Harvey OS: A new OS inspired heavily by Plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6435d446-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I may be showing my age, but Harvey was a 6' tall invisible rabbit. "Harvey", 1950, starring James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Peggy Dow Due to his insistence that he has an invisible six-foot rabbit for a best friend, a whimsical middle-aged man is thought by his family to be insane - but he may be wiser than anyone knows. The description on the Harvey OS web site implies that this is the source of the name. Daryl -----Original Message----- On July 27, 2015 10:24:37 AM CDT, Daniel Valio wrote: >Am I the only one that is really bothered by the name? > >It doesn't quite bring good things to mind. What?? The Batman character?? > >On 24.07.15 21:43, Ryan Gonzalez wrote: >> >https://medium.com/this-is-not-a-monad-tutorial/harvey-an-operating-sys >tem-with-plan-9-s-shadow-3081414e5f0b >> >> I'm not affiliated with this whatsoever; I just saw it on Reddit and >> found it interesting. >> >> I found this part particularly neat: >> >> > We are working in ANSI POSIX environment to have most of well known > >> tools and programs that programmers or end users expects to have in a > >> modern operating system. Things that for traditional Plan 9 would be >> very difficult to have. >> >> -- >> Sent from my Nexus 5 with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- Sent from my Nexus 5 with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.