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Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing
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wizerno
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trash_cat
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"Disk And Executive MONitor" does sound kinda cool, though.
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I’d guess someone backed into that acronym when asked “why do you call these things daemons?”
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m463
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Does Anyone Else Make Outrageous Names?
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