[TUHS] where did the term daemon come from?

Nemo cym224 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 8 11:54:38 AEST 2018


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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