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That's not funny though, and it's an obvious reference to the movie. > The name Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a reference to the Ed Wood 1957 cult science fiction Z
by Paul-Craft 4y ago
That's not funny though, and it's an obvious reference to the movie.
> The name Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a reference to the Ed Wood 1957 cult science fiction Z-movie Plan 9 from Outer Space.[17] The system continues to be used and developed by operating system researchers and hobbyists.[18][19]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
- fsckboy 4y agoyes, but since you haven't nailed the humor yet, the original pointer-outer should have pointed out, "Plan 9 from Userspace is a follow-on to the Plan 9 operating system from Bell Labs, which was whimsically named after the film Plan 9 From Outer Space. Since the unix operating system is built on a simple security model of kernel-space and userspace, this clever word play is also informative about the architecture"