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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"!!???
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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 07:49:26 -0500
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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...

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