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Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 09:58:00 -0300
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Harvey OS: A new OS inspired heavily by Plan 9
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I do realize that, of course. It's merely a rather unfortunate
association I can't shake off.

On 27.07.15 22:49, Daryl M wrote:
> 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 <notzmv@gmail.com> 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.
>
>
>