From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Sun has a Plan 9 inspired project called "Brazil"!!???
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 07:49:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0011290743340.14112-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001129123005.CC19B199F1@mail.cse.psu.edu>
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 bruce@staff.cs.su.oz.au wrote:
> In article <20001129101617.4E8CC199E1@mail.cse.psu.edu> you write:
> >>>I have yet to find the reason that they have the nerve to call it
> >>>Brazil, which is the nickname of Plan 9 release 3! But then again, I
> >
> >i imagine it is because brazil has associations with coffee,
> >and is unrelated to the systems named after films,
> >with which Sun's project has nothing in common, especially as
> >regards design, simplicity and effectiveness.
> ..
>
> Hey! What about Tarkovski's `Solaris'? :-)
Yes, but Sun got it backwards - it ought to be "decent OS and shitty
movie", not the other way round...
--
POSIX should be renamed to FPOSIX - it is U*IX-like, all right, but POS is
too mild to describe its quality...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-11-29 12:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-29 10:17 forsyth
2000-11-29 12:30 ` bruce
2000-11-29 12:49 ` Alexander Viro [this message]
2000-11-29 14:14 ` Andrey A Mirtchovski
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