From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 22805 invoked from network); 2 Aug 2022 19:37:45 -0000 Received: from 9front.inri.net (168.235.81.73) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 2 Aug 2022 19:37:45 -0000 Received: from sirjofri.de ([5.45.105.127]) by 9front; Tue Aug 2 15:34:39 -0400 2022 Received: from sirjofri.de ([95.90.217.83]) by sirjofri.de; Tue Aug 2 21:34:35 +0200 2022 Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2022 19:34:33 +0000 (UTC) From: sirjofri To: 9front@9front.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <07D3A033EE74CC37C392B5B9094ED791@eigenstate.org> References: <07D3A033EE74CC37C392B5B9094ED791@eigenstate.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Correlation-ID: List-ID: <9front.9front.org> List-Help: X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: CMS CMS dependency polling CSS framework Subject: Re: [9front] question about httpd Reply-To: 9front@9front.org Precedence: bulk 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