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Jason Lango, the original author (who I know personally), came from Brown University. Back in 1998, Brown was an 95%-Solaris shop, and so Solaris-specific APIs like Doors, its flavor of /proc, and its unique two level thread model (later removed by the late great Roger Faulkner) were topics of great interest amongst the systems students.

For at least one semester, the student operating system project was known as DoorsNT.