From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:15:13 -0400 Message-ID: From: Calvin Morrison To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: [9fans] Acme's Name. Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2e97c9c6-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Read this on http://research.swtch.com/acme When I started working on Acme, I had a pretty strong idea about what it would be and what it would look like, but I didn't have a name yet. As I usually did at the time, on Friday night I went to Times Square for Movie Night. +Penn Jillette was there, and I told him I needed a name for my new project. "What does it do?" he asked. "Umm... Everything." I said. "Acme," said Penn, and laughed.