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Subject: Re: Screen savers for syscons....
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 14:59:27 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <199610221949.VAA19022@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Oct 22, 96 09:49:44 pm
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J Wunsch writes:
> 
> As Jonathan Lemon wrote:
> 
> > > > i missed something -- who's Chuck?
> > > 
> > > The inofficial name for the BSD Daemon.  However, Kirk McKusick, the
> > > copyright holder for him, cannot stand this name.
> > 
> > So what does Kirk call him?
> 
> Dunno.  Don't think he's really got a name from Kirk.  Ask him
> yourself if you are curious... ;)


Correct on both points.  To quote:

> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 10:33:55 -0800
> From: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@McKusick.COM>
> 
> A pictorial history of the daemon can be found at
> http://www.zilker.net/users/beastie/index.html. Also,
> he does not have a name. If he did have a name, it
> certainly would not be Chuck! So, please do not
> continue this Chuck travesty that Walnut Creek
> CD-ROM started in their catalog!

I always preferred bsdd myself, but Kirk doesn't like that either.

Greg