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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!news.netmbx.de!mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE!ceres.fokus.gmd.de!gmdtub!gt From: gt@first.gmd.de (Gerd Truschinski) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: BSD demon? Message-ID: <3887@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> Date: 18 Aug 93 06:59:42 GMT References: <CBxK5G.3KB@candle.uucp> Sender: news@bigfoot.first.gmd.de Lines: 18 root@candle.uucp (Bruce Momjian) writes: >What is that short demon-looking thing on the cover of Leffler's BSD >book? >In reading about the T-shirts, I now understand that it is a general BSD >Unix mascot(?). >What is the history on this? Is it a play on the word daemon? And look, he has a 'fork' in his hand, AND he is smiling... /gT/ -- Gerd Truschinski | INTERNET: gt@first.gmd.de c/o GMD-First Berlin | Yes, this is the sort of scenario I 12489 Berlin-Adlershof | think up to amuse myself in the evenings. Rudower Chausee 5 (13.7) | -- with confirmation from Larisa