From: "Andrew Simmons" <andrew.simmons@monitorbm.co.nz>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Origins of the name of 4th edition file server
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 22:39:48 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030117094130.ENSK15912.mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz@[210.54.71.15]> (raw)
>With this trend one can expect that the future versions of all Plan9
>components would be named after little known towns with funny
>names. I say we start in PA. Intercourse, Climax and Blueballs come
>to mind. How about one named after Tightwad, MO -- this could
>be some sort of memory checker, or Bucksnort, TN -- perhaps
>the new name fo olefs?
A good idea in principle, but isn't it needlessly restrictive to consider
only names of towns in the USA? Surely the village of Wank in Germany
deserves to have a software tool named after it?
next reply other threads:[~2003-01-17 9:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-17 9:39 Andrew Simmons [this message]
2003-01-17 16:33 ` Jack Johnson
2003-01-17 16:11 ` Conor Williams
2003-01-17 19:14 ` Chris Hollis-Locke
2003-01-24 7:24 ` Tomas
2003-01-24 16:47 ` Russ Cox
2003-01-24 20:38 ` Tomas
2003-01-24 20:47 ` andrey mirtchovski
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-18 6:04 Andrew Simmons
2003-01-15 8:12 Skip Tavakkolian
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