Date: Thu, 9 Jan 92 08:11:54 est
From: Hal Abelson <hal@altdorf.ai.mit.edu>
To: unix-haters@life.ai.mit.edu
Subject: finally, an appropriate name

I see (from reading this august list) that Sun has chosen the name
"Solaris" for their new opeating system.

In Stanislaw Lem's novel of the same name, Solaris was an alien
planet/intelligence that human explorers found to be utterly
incomprehensible and psychologically devastating.  Encounters with
Solaris drove them to madness and death.

I'm glad that someone at Sun is finally getting it right.

-Hal