[TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised
Clem Cole
clemc at ccc.com
Wed Mar 21 07:09:17 AEST 2018
On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 4:14 PM, Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
Indeed. Kirk ended up getting some sort of legal rights for his version
of it [don't ask me which - trademark/copyright] .
Sadly my wife threw out my Foglio shirt a few years after we were married
(one of our first disagreements on the value of 'old' things - which
continues today - now she stay out the basement where my museum is😎. In
her defense, it was probably 5-6 years old then, had holes and had not worn
well. The shirts were very inexpensively made and frankly after 20-30
washings, the red piping on the side had faded and a few more washing the
printing started to fall off.
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