[Coco] Origins of thNitrOS-9 name

Boisy Pitre boisy at tee-boy.com
Fri May 10 15:51:25 EDT 2013


Just to clear up any misunderstanding, this is meant in jest, right? 

Merci,
Boisy





On May 10, 2013, at 1:32 PM, Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:

> 
>> 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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