From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: crossd@gmail.com (Dan Cross) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:04:38 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 1:56 PM, George Michaelson wrote: > we call them "busses" because back in the day, real electrical > engineers called any huge solid carrier of signal or power a bus line, > because it looked like the way trolly busses got their power. > THANK YOU! I have wondered about the etymology of the word "bus" in an electrical context for YEARS. I think daemon/demon came from printers demon, which is carved into > the government printing office in Brisbane. the printers demon is the > one which stuffed up letters in the tray, to make printers tear their > hair out. Did I say tray? I meant case, upper case, the one above, > with the big letters, and lower case, the case with the little > letters. oh dear. really? is that why they are cases? > While this story (and the others I trimmed for brevity) is (are) great, "daemon" is actually from the Greek, I believe: an intermediary between humans (users) and the gods (the kernel). - Dan C. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: