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From: root@candle.uucp (Bruce Momjian)
Subject: BSD demon?
Organization: a consultant's basement
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 01:00:51 GMT
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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?

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