From: Winston Kodogo <kodogo@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Annyoing modified by boyd
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 09:46:41 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFiGbxgVdU=2LSuK8mwAiexTfxTw2_fP5833bBiO2tuT3g2Kaw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bb5b92207b82df86fcc1fbb602436ae8@quintile.net>
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I'm not sure how kindly Boyd would have taken to being referred to as "the
younger brother of void". I suspect not well, although I'm not sure which
particular weapon he would have reached for in this instance:
http://www.petting-zoo.net/~deadbeef/archive/1023.html
On 18 September 2014 21:09, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> FYI
>
> bill and trog are lifted from the names the dossrv file system generates,
> I assume bill is Bill Gates and trog is from the film [1], dos and by
> association cifs use old file structures which live under a rock.
>
> I needed a last modifier name and chose boyd as a little tribute to him,
> a man who gave me many a guilty chuckle over the years. He lives on
> in plan9 in some dusty corners (mainly in fortunes).
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trog
>
> -Steve
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-18 21:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-17 11:18 Ingo Krabbe
2014-09-17 12:36 ` Steve Simon
2014-09-18 8:14 ` Ingo Krabbe
2014-09-18 9:09 ` Steve Simon
2014-09-18 21:46 ` Winston Kodogo [this message]
2014-09-18 3:41 Winston Kodogo
2014-09-18 8:20 ` Ingo Krabbe
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