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From: sirjofri <sirjofri+ml-9front@sirjofri.de>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] question about httpd
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2022 19:34:33 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e7e73328-1762-463b-b3d2-61fe0c3baaed@sirjofri.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <07D3A033EE74CC37C392B5B9094ED791@eigenstate.org>

Maye you should ask the question about Q either the Q continuum, on the 
9fans mailing list or the tuhs list and some of the old unix beards can 
answer? It would be really interesting to know or at least hear their 
thoughts. My theories:

Q is a weird letter that's not often used in the alphabet, unlike a,b,c, 
and a big Q, so it's not a context specific prefix. Compare to, well, B 
for bio-stuff.

Q as in, queue. Maybe at some point they had some kinda queue 
implementation for dynamic filesystems, and the Qid was some kinda 
identifier in that list?

Q as in, star trek. I mean, who knows what they thought, maybe it was 
just some fun idea.

sirjofri

  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-02 19:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-02 16:51 sahu
2022-08-02 16:56 ` Jacob Moody
2022-08-02 17:12 ` ori
2022-08-02 17:13 ` Kurt H Maier
2022-08-02 17:45   ` Jacob Moody
2022-08-02 18:41     ` ori
2022-08-02 19:34       ` sirjofri [this message]
2022-08-02 19:44         ` Jacob Moody
2022-08-02 19:53           ` sahu

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