[Coco] Origins of thNitrOS-9 name

[James Jones]

OS-9, I am pretty sure, was named that because it was initially written for
the 6809. I always figured the name NitrOS9 was inspired by the use of
nitromethane in drag racing--since it was written initially for the 6309,
which in native mode runs faster than the 6809 and has additional
instructions, it was a sped-up version of OS-9.


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu>wrote:

>
> > Just to clear up any misunderstanding, this is meant in jest, right?
> >
>
> If you were addressing that to me, no, I was serious.  I doubt OS9
> came from it but the Bell Labs OS was definitely a play on it.  The
> crew from Bell Labs definitely had a sense of humor.  And it shows
> up in a lot of the work they did.  I am sure Dennis Ritchie is still
> looking down and getting a big grin everytime someone else discovers
> one of his hidden nuggets.
>
> By the way, the people from OS9 and NitrOS9 are still here, why not
> just ask one of them where it came from?
>
> bill
>
> > 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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