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Doug White dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Fri Sep 19 15:46:59 PDT 2003


On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav wrote:

> underway at comcast.net (Gary W. Swearingen) writes:
> > I'm guessing that "BSD" led some BSD pioneer to think "beastie" which
> > he connected with processes already called daemons, and he thought it
> > would make for a good mascot.
>
> The mascot came before the name.

And if i recall the mascot was never named in the first place.

There was a movement to call him Chuck but kirk put that down.  'beastie'
is about as close as it gets.

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