Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!snipe.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: onion@anon.invalid (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mr_=D6n!on?=) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: UNIX systems Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:24:48 +0000 Organization: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D6n!ons?= of the World Untied Lines: 53 Message-ID: <1r91h98.25ytyrndpbdbN%onion@anon.invalid> References: <67b659f8@news.ausics.net> <87mseggwo1.fsf@example.com> <87frk8drdb.fsf@example.com> <2d9b3f1c-c742-e47f-84cf-599e01f9a044@example.net> <87ikp02i0x.fsf@example.com> <87msebw9sa.fsf@example.com> <87a5aau8bz.fsf@example.com> <8a7e56c9-779d-2250-2e9c-6dd67af88570@example.net> <87r03mq9po.fsf_-_@example.com> <2f52e086-7adf-663a-2bd7-0e328bdba87c@example.net> <87a5a7hhbd.fsf@example.com> <1e0008ef-b322-6a14-5842-d1f10eac4b58@example.net> <87h644gz5i.fsf@example.com> <9f05f9e2-c7cd-4d03-0e32-44dc9537e2f0@example.net> <87v7sj8284.fsf@example.com> <842580d0-aceb-b942-2043-4908be386f97@example.net> <87wmcx4drc.fsf_-_@example.com> <1r8zj3f.xvrkua1q2u5x8N%onion@anon.invalid> <87o6y7bomx.fsf@example.com> Reply-To: snipeco.1@gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mr_=D6n!on?=) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 17:24:50 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: snipe.eternal-september.org; posting-host="81ffbce6a16818ded7512a74c910beaa"; logging-data="2178771"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18H1/pD24ry9DXtqZQMs2G5" User-Agent: MacSOUP/2.8.6b1 (ed136d9b90) (Mac OS 10.13.6) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XugZOxiyCqF3O0EnFve0nHJgWWg= X-Onions: On!ons may make you cry. X-Face: %~?k@i0Q-$W*6n,&{l%{5)3bi,w}3-R-}P?\<<[TD1>7;8GJKb2RnJfN}XlDGAS+W)+UXr0 hk@WIU0F]*2K08K#]EfF!1@[,8d3 S_OQ(52.PIZ$AB0a8s|[17I[`-mzJBcxdAGh0>G.Pl"4< X-Tongue-In-Cheek: Always X-Face-Ideograph: U+97F1 "wild onions or leeks" X-Mockery: Y Bytes: 4472 Dan Cross wrote: > In article <87o6y7bomx.fsf@example.com>, > Salvador Mirzo wrote: > >onion@anon.invalid (Mr Èn!on) writes: > > > >> Salvador Mirzo wrote: > >> > >>> I believe Plan 9 is doing pretty well ... > >> > >> > > > >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 . . . -- \|/ (((Ï))) - Mr Ön!on When we shake the ketchup bottle At first none comes and then a lot'll.