[Coco] Origins of thNitrOS-9 name

Bill Gunshannon billg999 at cs.uofs.edu
Fri May 10 14:32:05 EDT 2013


> The story is someone was watching a movie titled "Plan 9 from Outer Space"
> and came up with Outer Space 9 (OS-9).

Afraid I never heard that one but the movie was kinda the basis
for the name of the Bell labs OS called Plan9.

bill

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