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Article #623984Re: George Lucas reveals his plan for Star Wars 7 through 9--and it was awful
From: Michael Black
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 19:34
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 19:34
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2018, Charles Richmond wrote: >>> but BSD stands for Bad Software Distribution! >>> >> No, "Berkely Software Distribution" though I may be wrong about the last >> word. >> > > Some places say it means Berkely Standard Distribution... > I may have been guessing at what the "S" stood for. >> Not to be confused with some small company that was "BDS", and they >> actually did claim it was "Badly Done Software". But now I can't remember >> what they were best known for. >> > > BDS was "brain damaged software". There was Small C compiler written by > Leor Zolman and then there was a port of Colossal Cave Adventure to BDS C. > Some things can be downloaded at: > I don't think I'm misremembering. So I think I must have read what I thought it was somewhere, I'm thinking in Jerry Pournelle's column in Byte. So maybe he was just making a joke. Michael
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