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From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] PLAN9
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 11:57:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <db84b8bd4f1f86078506b07068d9a509@9netics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c2349bd986a393330c801468a66f9696@terzarima.net>

> i liked Strachey's use of OS/6 for his operating system:
> he thought that at the rate he implemented things,
> there was little chance of a name collision.

somebody should have told him about Microware's OS/9 (back in '80s)

this reminds me of a George Carlin joke:
	"Do you realize that somewhere in the world there exists a
	person who qualifies as the worst doctor?  If you took the
	time, by process of elimination you could actually determine
	the worst doctor in the world.  And the funny part is knowing
	that someone has an appointment to see him tomorrow."



  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-13 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-13  6:39 csant
2006-08-13 14:53 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-08-13 17:04   ` Charles Forsyth
2006-08-13 18:57     ` Skip Tavakkolian [this message]
2006-08-13 18:19   ` LiteStar numnums
2006-08-13 18:29     ` Sascha Retzki
2006-08-15  5:18       ` Charles Forsyth
2006-08-15 13:46         ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-08-15 14:17           ` Charles Forsyth
2006-08-16 18:09         ` Sascha Retzki
2006-08-13 18:34     ` Skip Tavakkolian
     [not found] <20060814025138.D22002948D@mail.bitblocks.com>
2006-08-14  3:20 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2008-12-22  7:43 [9fans] plan9 Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2008-12-22 13:11 ` erik quanstrom
2008-12-22 14:03   ` Charles Forsyth
2008-12-22 13:54     ` erik quanstrom
2008-12-24 12:56     ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2008-12-24 12:53   ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan

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