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Some additional context: the editor of the manual was Sam Leffler, who was a coworker of Lasseter at Lucasfilm at the time. > The later, more popular versions
by jetrink 3y ago
Some additional context: the editor of the manual was Sam Leffler, who was a coworker of Lasseter at Lucasfilm at the time.
> The later, more popular versions of the BSD Daemon were drawn by animation director John Lasseter beginning with an early greyscale drawing on the cover of the Unix System Manager's Manual published in 1984 by USENIX for 4.2BSD.[7] Its author/editor Sam Leffler (who had been a technical staff member at CSRG) and Lasseter were both employees of Lucasfilm at the time. About four years after this Lasseter drew his widely known take on the BSD Daemon for the cover of McKusick's co-authored 1988 book, The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD Operating System.[8] Lasseter drew a somewhat lesser-known running BSD Daemon for the 4.4BSD version of the book in 1994.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon
- vanderZwan 3y ago> The BSD Daemon was first drawn in 1976 by comic artist Phil Foglio. Developer Mike O'Brien, who was working as a bonded locksmith at the time, opened a wall safe in Foglio's Chicago apartment after a roommate had "split town" without leaving the combination. In return Foglio agreed to draw T-shirt artwork for O'Brien, who gave him some Polaroid snaps of a PDP-11 system running UNIX along with some notions about visual puns having to do with pipes, demons/daemons, forks, a "bit bucket" named /dev/null, etc.[3] Foglio's drawing showed four happy little red daemon characters carrying tridents and climbing about on (or falling off of) water pipes in front of a caricature of a PDP-11 and was used for the first national UNIX meeting in the US (which was held in Urbana, Illinois). Wow, Phil Foglio as well? The origin story gets even more interesting. Here is a page that features the original artwork: http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/shirts/usenix.html http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/shirts/usenix.html
- divbzero 3y agoIs there a connection between Sam Leffler the BSD contributor at Lucasfilm/Pixar and BSD as the basis for NeXTSTEP/OS X at NeXT/Apple? As far as I can tell, there is no direct connection. Sam Leffler contributed most to the 4.1BSD and 4.2BSD while at Berkeley [1], while NeXTSTEP was based on Mach which was based on 4.2BSD and developed by Richard Rashid and Avie Tevanian at Carnegie Mellon [2]. Perhaps the indirect connection is that, before Linux, BSD was the natural choice for an open-source UNIX derivative, and Steve Jobs had an instinct for seeking out the leading edges of computing at the time. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_J._Leffler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_J._Leffler [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)#Development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)#Development
- toast0 3y agoI'd say before the UNIX lawsuit[1] of April 1992, BSD was the natural choice for a UNIX derivative . This lawsuit delayed the release of 4.4BSD, and since Linux was from scratch, it had no cloud of legal uncertainty. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories%2C_Inc._v._Berkeley_Software_Design%2C_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories%2C_In....
- a_vanderbilt 3y agoImagine what the world would look like if BSD became the dominant OS instead of Linux.
- geoelectric 3y agoWell, we’d be rebuilding it a lot.
- textadventure 3y agoWell, Steve Jobs did buy Pixar from Lucas.
- djmips 3y agoDo you know where to find the lesser known running version mentioned in this excerpt?