On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Brent Williams wrote:
> My apologies if this is a waste of anyone's time.
>
> I am getting tired of responding "I don't know" when a user asks me
> where the term "daemon" came from. Does anyone know the answer to this?
>
> thanks in advance
I've read this somewhere...
In the old Arabian Nights type of tales, demons were spirits
summoned to do things and then dismissed.
In the same vein that the "read.me" file came from Alice Through
the Looking Glass (eat me, drink me), these tales were expressed in Unix.
Daemons (with the Greek ae) were the names given to programs that
sit in the background and pop forward to do what you need, then vanish.
sounds good, anyway :)
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