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
>
>