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Dan Cross <cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:

> In article <87o6y7bomx.fsf@example.com>,
> Salvador Mirzo  <smirzo@example.com> wrote:
> >onion@anon.invalid (Mr Èn!on) writes:
> >
> >> Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I believe Plan 9 is doing pretty well ...
> >>
> >> <https://youtu.be/-zNSQmS2gls>
> >
> >Thanks!  Have you watched?  Can you explain why they choose the name?
> 
> The operating system or the movie?  I don't know why the movie
> was called that; perhaps Ed Wood just thought it was clever.  It
> refers to a plot point, the 9th extraterrestrial plan to destroy
> earth.
> 
> At Bell Labs, in the 1127 research group, it was something of a
> tradition to give things names that were a bit of a joke, and
> also gave others headaches.  The original name for "Unix" was
> UNICS, as a pun on Multics, for example (and some have claimed
> it had a double meaning as an off-color joke making reference to
> a "castrated" version of its predecessor, especially given that
> the usual pronunciation was aliterative with the word "eunuchs".
> I'm not sure I believe that, though).
> 
> Anyway, Plan 9, the operating system, was named in a similar
> vein after the movie.  There are a few other historical movie
> references associated with it, as well: the original window
> system was named "8 1/2" (though using the Unicode code point
> for the fraction 1/2), in reference to the Fellini film.  In
> between the 2nd and 3rd Editions, the working name for the
> system at the Labs was "Brazil", in homage to the Terry Gilliam
> dystopian cult classic.  While the name was changed back to Plan
> 9 for the open source 3rd Edition release, a small reference to
> this is left in the name of the current window system, "rio",
> presumably a reference to Rio de Janeiro.
> 
>       - Dan C.
>

Addendum:  'Plan 9 From Outer Space' is widely thought to be the worst
movie ever made.  I do hope that this does not reflect anybody's adverse
opinion of Plan 9 OS . . . 

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