I suspect that is the room number from the early days of B, C and Unix at Bell Labs at Murray Hill where Dennis Ritchie (May he rest in peace) and Ken Thompson might have often meet to collaborate on what became Unix. I really am guessing but back in the days of the Arpanet collaboration in the early 70's when I was a graduate student; they while using the untyped B language were moving toward using Dennis's C language for the 2nd or 3rd rewrite of what became UNIX. Their progress was followed on the Arpanet.
I'm sure a little research or someone will help get the details of that somewhat cryptic fortune..
Personal remembrance you can stop reading here. It wasn't till 1989 or 90 I actually met Dennis and at a UNIX convention where he was the Keynote speaker and subject was when your creation 'C' turns 20 or what da heck I don't remember but it was one of the better keynote speakers. I like a groupie wanted to shake hands with my hero; Mr..Ritchie didn't come out west much.
Mr. Ritchie did go to Nashville for a UNIX convention the maybe next year and actually played with other hackers in clandestine squirt gun fight in the arboretum of the Opryland Hotel. I still treasure my clandestine squirt gun, a aluminum can which looked like a Pepsi can but was really a battery powered squirt gun. It still on a shelf in my computer room, (I'm looking at it as I type this) Those were the days when in our second childhood (Many like Dennis and myself were in their 40s) but their were UNIX hackers still in college. and it was a lot of fun while the Opryland Personnel tried to put an end to our game. End Personal remembrance
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