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Date:      Mon, 21 Oct 1996 12:35:29 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "David E. Brooks Jr" <dbj@MPGN.COM>
To:        Peter da Silva <peter@taronga.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: splash-page on bootup..
Message-ID:  <Pine.ULT.3.91.961021123245.1606A-100000@Central.KeyWest.MPGN.COM>
In-Reply-To: <199610202215.RAA05830@bonkers.taronga.com>

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On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Peter da Silva wrote:

> In article <199610202019.GAA17009@godzilla.zeta.org.au>,
> Bruce Evans  <bde@zeta.org.au> wrote:
> >Nah.  life(1) takes only a small amount of assembly language:
> 
> [deletia]
> 
> Now *that* is something worth sticking in the boot sequence. It's a
> cool hack, and it can do one generation per probe, you can see if it
> hangs, and it's *way* cooler than anything Microsoft does.

Especially if it can "grow" something cool, like "FreeBSD" or a
rendition of the BSD Daemon (or both?) by the end of the probes.

-- Dave

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David E. Brooks Jr / dbj@TanSoft.COM		Phone: +1 502 897 5180
Tantalus Incorporated
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