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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:5340 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1097 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!uunet.ca!smd From: smd@uunet.ca (Sean Doran) Subject: Re: kernel names References: <1993Sep21.194457.10899@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <27pe7k$4vq@germany.eu.net> <27pqqj$ibk@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <27uflq$75l@germany.eu.net> <1993Sep24.212913.18919@emba.uvm.edu> Organization: UUNET Canada Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1993 05:17:28 GMT Message-ID: <CDw9D4.85M@uunet.ca> Lines: 20 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''.) 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. Sean. >Message-ID: <Bywnoq.IyC@world.std.com> >References: <VIXIE.92Dec6090950@cognition.pa.dec.com> vixie> Well, it walks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, and it's vixie> labelled "duck", but if you want me to call it a tree, I guess "ok". geoff> By your own admission, it doesn't walk like a duck, it doesn't geoff> quack like a duck, and it's labelled "vmduck" (which apparently geoff> means a duck to fat or stupid too fly).