Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:06:14 -0700 From: underway@comcast.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: chat@freebsd.org Cc: =?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Subject: Re: Spelling Message-ID: <xgoexgcu21.exg@mail.comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <xzpznh0fzfu.fsf@dwp.des.no> ( =?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav's_message_of?= "Fri, 19 Sep 2003 19:41:41 %2B0200") References: <20030919164821.2b1d18d1.max@willystudios.com> <c4wuc4d6o8.uc4@mail.comcast.net> <xzpznh0fzfu.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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des@des.no (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes: > The mascot came before the name. Well, it's easy to believe that the mascot came before the naming of the mascot. :) But AFAIK, the acronym "BSD" came 5 to 6 years before the mascot so it's hard for me to believe that the mascot came before "beastie" was used in relation to BSD or before it was used as a name (for BSD). But it's easy to believe that that did not help prompt the creation of the mascot, though I suspect that only John Lasseter knows. (1) If someone knows when and how beastie got it's name, please tell us. AFAIK, it's not documented anywhere. (2) Back to the original topic, this http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#DAEMON-NAME says that "beastie" is pronounced "BSD". By VERY few, I'm guessing. Footnotes -- (-) BSD was started by Bill Joy in 1976. (1) AFAIK, the mascot was first published with some "4.2 BSD" documentation in 1982 or 1983. Several sources say that the original image (from which similar images that we are familiar with) was created by John Lasseter who later assigned his copyrights to McKusick. (I have no idea why McKusick's copyright claim uses 1988.) Neither of McKusick's "history" page or his book chapter or any of several other history pages I found says when the "beastie" name appeared. (2) Neither of McKusick's "history" sub-site (dig past the advertising) or his book chapter or any other history I found gives any history of the name "beastie". http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/mainpage/copyright.html http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/index.html http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html http://minnie.tuhs.org/BSD-info/BSD.html http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/bsdaemon/
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