Re: Change the name "daemon" to something better!

Koppe74 <koppe74@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What *does* daemon stand for then? After all,
> assuming the people who made Unix could spell,
> I would think it would be short for *something*... as
> it seems to be a pun on those trident-carriers...

It's not an acronym. CTSS used it as a somewhat classical-tinged
metaphor connoting "helpful agent", and Unix picked it up from there.

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