* [9fans] Re: Sun has a Plan 9 inspired project called "Brazil"!!???
@ 2000-11-29 10:17 forsyth
2000-11-29 12:30 ` bruce
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From: forsyth @ 2000-11-29 10:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
>>I have yet to find the reason that they have the nerve to call it
>>Brazil, which is the nickname of Plan 9 release 3! But then again, I
i imagine it is because brazil has associations with coffee,
and is unrelated to the systems named after films,
with which Sun's project has nothing in common, especially as
regards design, simplicity and effectiveness.
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* Re: [9fans] Re: Sun has a Plan 9 inspired project called "Brazil"!!???
2000-11-29 10:17 [9fans] Re: Sun has a Plan 9 inspired project called "Brazil"!!??? forsyth
@ 2000-11-29 12:30 ` bruce
2000-11-29 12:49 ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-29 14:14 ` Andrey A Mirtchovski
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From: bruce @ 2000-11-29 12:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
In article <20001129101617.4E8CC199E1@mail.cse.psu.edu> you write:
>>>I have yet to find the reason that they have the nerve to call it
>>>Brazil, which is the nickname of Plan 9 release 3! But then again, I
>
>i imagine it is because brazil has associations with coffee,
>and is unrelated to the systems named after films,
>with which Sun's project has nothing in common, especially as
>regards design, simplicity and effectiveness.
..
Hey! What about Tarkovski's `Solaris'? :-)
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* Re: [9fans] Re: Sun has a Plan 9 inspired project called "Brazil"!!???
2000-11-29 12:30 ` bruce
@ 2000-11-29 12:49 ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-29 14:14 ` Andrey A Mirtchovski
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From: Alexander Viro @ 2000-11-29 12:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 bruce@staff.cs.su.oz.au wrote:
> In article <20001129101617.4E8CC199E1@mail.cse.psu.edu> you write:
> >>>I have yet to find the reason that they have the nerve to call it
> >>>Brazil, which is the nickname of Plan 9 release 3! But then again, I
> >
> >i imagine it is because brazil has associations with coffee,
> >and is unrelated to the systems named after films,
> >with which Sun's project has nothing in common, especially as
> >regards design, simplicity and effectiveness.
> ..
>
> Hey! What about Tarkovski's `Solaris'? :-)
Yes, but Sun got it backwards - it ought to be "decent OS and shitty
movie", not the other way round...
--
POSIX should be renamed to FPOSIX - it is U*IX-like, all right, but POS is
too mild to describe its quality...
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* Re: [9fans] Re: Sun has a Plan 9 inspired project called "Brazil"!!???
2000-11-29 12:30 ` bruce
2000-11-29 12:49 ` Alexander Viro
@ 2000-11-29 14:14 ` Andrey A Mirtchovski
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From: Andrey A Mirtchovski @ 2000-11-29 14:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 bruce@staff.cs.su.oz.au wrote:
> Hey! What about Tarkovski's `Solaris'? :-)
>
I doubt they even knew of Lem's book...
However it's an interesting analogy... D'you think SunOS is a sort of
reincarnation of this station to its users? :)
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