Oh I see. I have found that the logo was mentioned in news group 
org.freebsd.freebsd-chat back in 1997.




________________________________
 From: Lowell Gilbert <[email protected]>
To: Patrick Dung <[email protected]> 
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> 
Sent: Wednesday, September 4, 2013 11:45 PM
Subject: Re: The logo at boot (Nakatomi Socrates BSD 9.2)
 

Patrick Dung <[email protected]> writes:

> Do you know what is this logo means, or the story behind it?
> I thought the BSD daemon (logo) has been around for many years in the past.

It's a movie reference ("Die Hard").

The Beastie logo is still there, in the /boot directory, if you want it.
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