Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ncar!umigw!umbio!jherr From: jherr@umbio.MIAMI.EDU (Jack Herrington) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: BSD 9.2 Message-ID: <274@umbio.MIAMI.EDU> Date: 17 Aug 88 16:34:13 GMT References: <16836@adm.ARPA> Lines: 17 in article <16836@adm.ARPA>, MKL@sri-nic.arpa (Mark Lottor) says: > > In the movie DIE HARD there's a scene where a terrorist is trying to > get an access code out of a company president. They show the terminal > screen for a few seconds, and you see something like: > > Nxxxxxxx Socrates BSD 9.2 That's actually (ha, ha), a reference to BSD 2.9 reversed, but I think the actually title BSD 2.9 might have a copyright on it. But you can take consolation in the fact the you recognized the slang. BTW, BSD 2.9 was the fore-runner of 4.1. Which in turn spawned 4.2, who in turn was kind enough to spawn 4.3, and soon 4.4. -Jack Herrington "You don't have to, say that you love me, if you don't mean it, you better believe!"