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From: smd@uunet.ca (Sean Doran)
Subject: Re: kernel names
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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).