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From: wollman@sadye.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Subject: Re: kernel names
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In article <CDw9D4.85M@uunet.ca>, Sean Doran <smd@uunet.ca> wrote:

>Vixie's clever, but that isn't one of his witticisms.  It's pure Geoff
>Collyer, poking fun at someone who doesn't mind big code as much as he
>does.

No, this one actually is Paul.  What he said when I saw it---also in
an exchange with Geoff---was (from memory):

: It looks like a duck, it quacks like a duck, and its kernel is
: called `/vmduck', so I think I'm justified in calling it a duck.

-GAWollman

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