Plan 9 from Bell Labs [SEP] named after
-centric ideology.
The name "Plan 9 from Bell Labs" is a reference to the Ed Wood 1959 cult science fiction Z-movie "Plan 9 from Outer Space". (The name of the project's mascot, "Glenda, the Plan 9 Bunny", is presumably a reference to Wood's film "Glen or Glenda".) The system continues to be used and developed by operating system researchers and hobbyists.
History.
Plan 9 from Bell Labs was originally developed, starting in the
official (British) adoption of the Gregorian calendar from the previously used Julian calendar. This has been documented in the man pages for Sun Solaris as follows. "An unusual calendar is printed for September 1752. That is the month when 11 days were skipped to make up for lack of leap year adjustments." The Plan 9 from Bell Labs manual states: "Try cal sep 1752."
See also.
- Cron process for scheduling jobs to run on a particular date.
- List of Unix commands