* [TUHS] where did the term daemon come from? @ 2018-06-07 22:47 ron minnich 2018-06-07 23:05 ` Jeremy C. Reed 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/attachments/20180607/5b1f4cd1/attachment.html> ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* [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 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread 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 ) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] where did the term daemon come from? 2018-06-07 23:05 ` Jeremy C. Reed @ 2018-06-08 1:54 ` Nemo 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread 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. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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