[TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised
Warren Toomey
wkt at tuhs.org
Wed Mar 21 06:14:41 AEST 2018
On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 02:46:00PM -0400, Clem Cole wrote:
> As for Paul's comment about the daemons. Yes, Kirk McKusick who
> actually drew the original BSD daemon with purple sneakers, was wearing
> the infamous blue tee with said logo out walking on the street, as one
> someone else in the party (maybe Sam Leffler) sporting a 10 anniversary
> USENIX shirt in San Antonio many years ago, which has the daemons shown
> top of a PDP-11 with pipes, the null device, et al. He has quite a
> tale of the experience.
The daemons on the PDP-11 with pipes was drawn by Phil Foglio:
https://www.mckusick.com/beastie/shirts/usenix.html
and this image was the inspiration for the BSD daemon.
Cheers, Warren
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