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From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: kernel names
Date: 24 Sep 1993 18:13:29 -0500
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In article <1993Sep24.212913.18919@emba.uvm.edu> wollman@sadye.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) writes:
>Frankly, I prefer `/vmduck', myself.  (An allusion to Paul Vixie's
>famous comment defending BSD as ``real UNIX''.)

YES!  YES!  YES!!!

Finally, the ultimate naming solution :-)

At least the 'duck' part would mean the same thing to everyone.  Of
course, Duck's Unlimited (an American orgtanization that fights to
preserve duck habit and wetlands so they can sit around and play
anti-aircraft gunner :-) ) might have something to say about the use of
the word duck in such a clearly non-hunting context.

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