From: imp@bsdimp.com (Warner Losh)
Subject: [TUHS] Origin of 'kill -9'?
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 23:03:54 -0700 [thread overview]
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On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 11:00 PM, Lars Brinkhoff <lars at nocrew.org> wrote:
> Don Hopkins wrote:
> > 9 means “no” in German.
>
> Isn't it nine = neun, but no = nein?
>
Yes. But this is more of a pun. English 9 (nine) == German No (nein). Kinda
like Oct 31 == Dec 25...
Warner
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-14 19:03 Dan Cross
2017-11-14 20:07 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-14 20:11 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-11-14 22:35 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-15 21:52 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-15 22:51 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-11-15 23:01 ` Steve Simon
2017-11-16 6:00 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-11-16 6:03 ` Warner Losh [this message]
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