+++ Philip S Tellis [linux-india] <30/05/02 10:25 +0530>:
> a daemon (Disk And Execution MONitor) runs in the background waiting for
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That was perhaps coined after the fact. Here is the "true funda" ... phrased
as a question because I'd asked this in a quiz posted to quiznet a while back.
-srs
| 5. The ARPANET funded Project MAC (which led to the development of MULTICS -
| which in turn inspired Unix) was led by Prof Fernando J Corbato on the IBM
| 7094 computer in 1963. Prof Corbato first devised the concept (now widely
| used in server operating systems) of "a continuously running process that
| stays in the background". He named it after "an imaginary agent which worked
| tirelessly in the background to sort molecules of different speeds",
| theorized by 19th century physicist James Clerk Maxwell. What's the word?
|
| a. Daemon. Even more interesting - this grew out of an earlier project by
| Prof Corbato to develop a timesharing system on the IBM 7090, because the
| president of IBM, who raced yachts, immediately wanted a program calculating
| the handicaps of various yachts in a race to be run. This led to the
| computer's operator having to stop midway a very long and complex program,
| and start again from scratch after the president's yacht race calculations
| had been run. With daemons, the important job would just be pushed to the
| "background" and told to continue execution, while the yacht race program
| would execute in the "foreground".
--
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