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From: bruce@staff.cs.su.oz.au
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Sun has a Plan 9 inspired project called "Brazil"!!???
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 07:30:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001129123005.CC19B199F1@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001129101617.4E8CC199E1@mail.cse.psu.edu>

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'? :-)


  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-29 12:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-29 10:17 forsyth
2000-11-29 12:30 ` bruce [this message]
2000-11-29 12:49   ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-29 14:14   ` Andrey A Mirtchovski

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