Michael A. Stone wrote:
> almost every background process in a computer does work which is notionally
> identical to that of Maxwell's daemon. it sits and waits for input, then
> classifies it and shunts it off for further, specific, processing. the
> Elder Hackers who created the first such programs knew the value of a good
> metaphor, so they called their creations 'daemons'.
While we have Mike on the subject <G>.
My dog-earred UNIX manual says that Daemon is an acronym for Disk,
Access, and Extension Monitor.
Myth or not?
B
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