From: Tomas <psycho@pobox.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Origins of the name of 4th edition file server
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 08:24:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0301240814030.15516-100000@peppar.cs.umu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002601c2be5c$c95bcae0$2248dec2@falken>
As long as we're discussing names, I though I'd ask about
something I just realized this week. I was thinking about naming
applications and thought that a POP server under Plan9 could be
named pop9, but then I realized popIX, with it's similarity in
both spelling and pronounciation to POSIX, would be mildly
amusing.
And then it hit me; Plan9 = PlanIX (yes, I'm slow). I remembered
reading about how the name UNIX was a play with words with it's
predecessor Multics, so naturally the question pops into my mind:
is this the case with Plan9 as well? Was the number 9 at the end
of the name a factor in deciding the name, just as Presotto wrote
that having the letters f and s in it was a factor when choosing
fossil?
/Tomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-24 7:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-17 9:39 Andrew Simmons
2003-01-17 16:33 ` Jack Johnson
2003-01-17 16:11 ` Conor Williams
2003-01-17 19:14 ` Chris Hollis-Locke
2003-01-24 7:24 ` Tomas [this message]
2003-01-24 16:47 ` Russ Cox
2003-01-24 20:38 ` Tomas
2003-01-24 20:47 ` andrey mirtchovski
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2003-01-18 6:04 Andrew Simmons
2003-01-15 8:12 Skip Tavakkolian
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