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From: erc@pai.UUCP (Eric Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: what does "UNIX" really stand for? (also Plan 9)
Summary: Plan 9 from Outer Space
Message-ID: <216@pai.UUCP>
Date: 6 Oct 88 18:33:35 GMT
References: <1681@daisy.UUCP> <3483@crash.cts.com> <3521@phri.UUCP>
Organization: Prime Automation, Inc., Burnsville, MN
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In article <3521@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
> ...
> 	BTW, a little while ago there was some talk in this group about
> "Plan 9", the latest experimental version of Unix under development at The
> Labs.  Well, I'd like to let you all know that it appears to have been
> released to the public earlier than expected.  

                You bet, years ago.

> ...I noticed that
> that Plan 9 was playing a twin bill with The Neats at a little club on
> Broadway, near Houston (across the street from EMS). 

What about the movie _Plan 9 From Outer Space_?  This was the last
Bela Lugosi (sp?) film and is memorable for being rated one
of the worst films of all time. 

> I knew AT&T has been
> doing horrible things to Unix lately, but I never would have guess that
> they would have stooped so low as to turn it into a punk rock band.  I can
> see it now; "We are not men!  We are /dev/o!"

Either this will start a flame war or this is AT&T's answer to the OSF.

> Roy Smith, System Administrator
> Public Health Research Institute
> {allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net
> "The connector is the network"

"The network is the netork"

-Eric


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