why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ?

[Allen]

On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 22:23 +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> KAYVEN  RIESE <kayve at 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.

I thought it was neat, my first FreeBSD release was 4.0 from the
Powerpak :)

I love how FreeBSD does things like this for historical reasons, I love
reading about the History, which is why I bought that DVD "20 years of
Berkeley UNIX" with Marshall. Great DVD and very good if you're a UNIX
history buff.


> 
> Later the default changed to display "FreeBSD" in big
> letters instead of the BSD daemon.  But Beastie is
> still there and can be enabled with an option.  You
> can look at the beastie.4th file with a text editor.
> 
> Best regards
>    Oliver

Wo ist dass? I didn't know it was still there!


sehr danke!

-Allen