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Date:      Fri, 4 Jan 2002 16:23:53 +0100 (CET)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The BSD daemon
Message-ID:  <200201041523.g04FNr478167@lurza.secnetix.de>
In-Reply-To: <20020104125650.U136-100000@localhost>

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Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> wrote:
 > On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Peter McGarvey wrote:
 > > I thought his name was BSD, pronounced "beastie".
 > I have never heard this explanation before, but it is so good, it
 > should be made "official".

It already is as official as it can be, since Kirk (the
inventor) prefers this name.

And by the way, it isn't "his".  According to Kirk, it
is neither male nor female.  I don't know why people keep
thinking it's a male.  There's nothing that supports that
assumption.  ;-)

Regards
   Oliver

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