[TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised

[Dan Cross]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 1:56 PM, George Michaelson <ggm at algebras.org> 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.
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