Thanks! It seems to be antiquated tech jargon as well. Plan 9 was an operating system directed in part by Rob Pike (the author of this email) in which the Copy action was called “Snarf”.
it was created by the bell labs ppl and supposed to be like the successor to unix but market forces and the prevalence of unix/linux caused it to never reach mainstream
In case you’re as confused as I am: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snarf
Thanks! It seems to be antiquated tech jargon as well. Plan 9 was an operating system directed in part by Rob Pike (the author of this email) in which the Copy action was called “Snarf”.
It’s actually not a copy action, it’s snarf.
there’s still a community of people who use plan 9 and a handful of ports and implementations of plan 9 systems!
you can snarf to this day if u want
why?
because they want to
r u snarfin me rn
So like, is it a Unix?
it was created by the bell labs ppl and supposed to be like the successor to unix but market forces and the prevalence of unix/linux caused it to never reach mainstream