Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Ken Thompson interview in IEEE Computer magazine (fwd) | Date | Fri, 07 May 1999 18:52:24 -0400 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <Pine.LNX.3.95.990507215551.611A-100000@localhost>, Gerard Roudier w rites: +----- | If number 9 means that the 8 previous Plans were bad Plans, we should | suggest Ken to immediately give up his current Plan and start | something like Plan 9999. ;-) +--->8
Eh? No, it's a joke, just as "Unix" was a pun on MULTICS --- "Plan 9" is from PLAN 9 IN OUTER SPACE, arguably the worse "sci-fi" movie ever made.
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
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