Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 09:53:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: Chris Fedde <cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us> Cc: BJ How <bj-how@mediaone.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Definition of FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9908090951430.19626-100000@rac1.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199908090435.WAA11329@fedde.littleton.co.us>
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> Kenneth, > > This is mis-information. The "D" stands for Distribution not Design. The > Design thing came much later when a company called itself BSDI and added a > bit of ambiguity. > > BTW, BTW sands for By The Way, RSN stands for Real Soon Now, NSA stands for > No Such Agency, and TLA stands for Three Letter Abbreviation. Well, I have heard it both ways, and have read it as Design in many major UNIX books. I have also seen it as Distribution. When I wrote the mail, I just decided to say Design randomly since I didn't know that it mattered (if books say it's both, then I don't argue). Kenneth Culver To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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