| Here's a handy guide to uncovering such information for yourself, and being able to write a TIL rather than an IHNFC: TUHS is The Unix Heritage Society mailing list, which might offer you some cues as to context. There's a link at the top-right of the submitted link: https://www.tuhs.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/tuhs@tuhs.org/ Rob Pike is Kind of A Big Deal in Unix, C (he's the Pike in Kernighan and Pike, a/k/a The UNIX Programming Environment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unix_Programming_Environme...)) The Go programming language, and a thing called Plan 9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike Plan 9 From Outer Space was a so utterly bad it's ... well, just bad ... 1957 science fiction film. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space Plan 9 from Bell Labs appropriated the name from the film for an operating system building on Pike's (and others') earlier experience developing Unix. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs You can download and install Plan 9 OS if you like: https://plan9.io/plan9/ Ten Thousand: https://xkcd.com/1053/ |