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Date:      Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:00:39 -0900
From:      Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org>
To:        "freebsd-chat@freebsd.org" <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   etymology of the emergency holographic shell
Message-ID:  <CA%2BE3k93k8Jx0dK_wAoSRCsg=D7=6QnS_gFAYBPDxyZkfENfHQw@mail.gmail.com>

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Random question ... does anyone know the history of why is it called
the "emergency holographic shell"?

The earliest commit that I could find on FreshBSD was this one from
Jordan Hubbard, in 1995:

    http://www.freshbsd.org/commit/freebsd/r8828

I also wasn't able to find any reference at all in Diomodis Spinellis'
UNIX history repo:

    https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/search?q=holographic

Is it a technical term that I'm not familiar with, or a bit of humor
that has survived?

Or maybe it's an astronomy joke?

http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.2650

:-)

Royce



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