On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> The little devil character has been traditionally associated with BSD.
> I believe it was John Lasseter who first drew it for the cover of the
> printed BSD manuals, quite some time ago (I still have mine in a box in
> the attic ... somewhere).  "The Unix daemon."  (daemon being both a
> protective angel and those funny programs that detach from their
> controlling terminals to perform system functions.)

I heared that it appeared quite early on some usenix-related things, see
http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/shirts/usenix.html

I'd love to have a scan of these BSD manuels' front page, for my
collection (www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/images/).


 - Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>