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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



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