Oliver Fromme wrote:
> KAYVEN RIESE <kayve@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.
For those that may not notice it:
beastie sounds like BSD
--
Dan Langille
BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/
PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/
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