* [TUHS] where did the term daemon come from?
@ 2018-06-07 22:47 ron minnich
2018-06-07 23:05 ` Jeremy C. Reed
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From: ron minnich @ 2018-06-07 22:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
someone asked me today, and I only remember using that term in 1975 but
can't recall the origin.
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* [TUHS] where did the term daemon come from?
2018-06-07 22:47 [TUHS] where did the term daemon come from? ron minnich
@ 2018-06-07 23:05 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2018-06-08 1:54 ` Nemo
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From: Jeremy C. Reed @ 2018-06-07 23:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
See this long thread
https://minnie.tuhs.org//pipermail/tuhs/2018-March/thread.html#13142
Sorry the thread is long, but some of it tells us where it comes from.
(It predates Unix. http://multicians.org/mgd.html )
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* [TUHS] where did the term daemon come from?
2018-06-07 23:05 ` Jeremy C. Reed
@ 2018-06-08 1:54 ` Nemo
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From: Nemo @ 2018-06-08 1:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
On 07/06/2018, Jeremy C. Reed <reed at reedmedia.net> wrote:
> See this long thread
> https://minnie.tuhs.org//pipermail/tuhs/2018-March/thread.html#13142
>
> Sorry the thread is long, but some of it tells us where it comes from.
>
> (It predates Unix. http://multicians.org/mgd.html )
And speaking of daemons, does anyone know the origin of that
photograph on the Web showing someone in priestly garb shaking an
aspergillum at a row of servers with the caption "Daemon Stop!".
N.
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