Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:26:05 -0500 From: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, kayve@sfsu.edu Subject: Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ? Message-ID: <47A38E6D.1090705@langille.org> In-Reply-To: <200802012123.m11LNV3s061230@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200802012123.m11LNV3s061230@lurza.secnetix.de>
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Oliver Fromme wrote: > KAYVEN RIESE <kayve@sfsu.edu> wrote: > > you guys are meanies! beasties even! > > I'm not sure if your question is meant to be serious > or not, but I'll try to give a serious answer anyway. > I'm working on that file right now. :-) > > Basically the name is kept for historical reasons. > > When the forth-implemented boot menu was introduced, > the forth file displayed that menu alongside an ASCII > picture of the BSD daemon [1] mascot which is commonly > called "Beastie" [2]. Therefore that forth file got > the name beastie.4th. For those that may not notice it: beastie sounds like BSD -- Dan Langille BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/
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