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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!eff!news.umbc.edu!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!watserv2.uwaterloo.ca!undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca!mskucher From: mskucher@after.math.uwaterloo.ca (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF]) Subject: Re: Devil from title of "Design and..." by McKusick et al. Message-ID: <CJw8ov.BoG@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner) Organization: MFCF Special Weapons and Tactics References: <ARG.94Jan15153528@druid.first.gmd.de> <JKH.94Jan15191712@whisker.lotus.ie> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 20:24:31 GMT Lines: 28 jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >In article <ARG.94Jan15153528@druid.first.gmd.de> arg@first.gmd.de (Arnulf Guenther) writes: > I think everybody knows that cute, little devil from the title of > "Design and Implementation of the 4.2BSD Operating System" by McKusick > >"The BSD demon", drawn by John Lassiter and Copyrighted by Kirk McKusick. > > now). All I want to know if someone can point me to an address where > I can purchase a t-shirt with this creature on it. Thanx in Advance. > >Kirk generally does the tee-shirts, and had some of them for sale at >his recent talk in Holland. I bought one from him (well, actually, I >bought _his_ - I had to wash it when I got it home! :-) and believe he >has more for sale, if you somehow can arrange to get the shipping >details worked out (I don't know if he even sells them outside of >conferences). > >I dunno though - I wish he'd gotten Mr. Lassiter to do the artwork for >the tee-shirt as well. Whoever did the artwork for this one has the >demon looking more like a mutant chipmunk! :-( The T-shirt that was on sale at summer USENIX in Cincinnati has gone up for sale over the net at least once since then. Maybe he announces them from time to time in comp.org.usenix, since that's what this particular design was for (I think). The design was the demon with the AT&T DeathStar on the end of his pitchfork.