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From: gt@first.gmd.de (Gerd Truschinski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: BSD demon?
Message-ID: <3887@bigfoot.first.gmd.de>
Date: 18 Aug 93 06:59:42 GMT
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root@candle.uucp (Bruce Momjian) writes:

>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?

And look, he has a 'fork' in his hand, AND he is smiling...

/gT/
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