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* [9fans] Trivia question
@ 2009-07-07 14:56 Brantley Coile
  2009-07-07 15:10 ` David Leimbach
  2009-07-07 15:23 ` Rob Pike
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Brantley Coile @ 2009-07-07 14:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs

Hopefully this is not the same kind of question as "Since data goes in
both directions, why do you call it streams?"

Does anyone know why u.h is named u.h?

Brantley




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* Re: [9fans] Trivia question
  2009-07-07 14:56 [9fans] Trivia question Brantley Coile
@ 2009-07-07 15:10 ` David Leimbach
  2009-07-07 15:23 ` Rob Pike
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: David Leimbach @ 2009-07-07 15:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs

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"uh" I don't know.

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Brantley Coile <brantley@coraid.com> wrote:

> Hopefully this is not the same kind of question as "Since data goes in both
> directions, why do you call it streams?"
>
> Does anyone know why u.h is named u.h?
>
> Brantley
>
>
>

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* Re: [9fans] Trivia question
  2009-07-07 14:56 [9fans] Trivia question Brantley Coile
  2009-07-07 15:10 ` David Leimbach
@ 2009-07-07 15:23 ` Rob Pike
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Rob Pike @ 2009-07-07 15:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs

because originally it was little more than the typedefs for uchar, ulong etc.

-rob



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