From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tomas To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Origins of the name of 4th edition file server In-Reply-To: <002601c2be5c$c95bcae0$2248dec2@falken> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 08:24:32 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 46585d12-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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