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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:5363 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1107 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!emba-news.uvm.edu!sadye.emba.uvm.edu!wollman From: wollman@sadye.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) Subject: Re: kernel names Message-ID: <1993Sep25.202141.15718@emba.uvm.edu> Sender: news@emba.uvm.edu Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility References: <1993Sep21.194457.10899@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <27uflq$75l@germany.eu.net> <1993Sep24.212913.18919@emba.uvm.edu> <CDw9D4.85M@uunet.ca> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1993 20:21:41 GMT Lines: 19 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 -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@emba.uvm.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. uvm-gen!wollman | It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people UVM disagrees. | who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant