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Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing

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twobitshifter ◴[20 Oct 24 12:58 UTC] No.41895073[source]▶
Do you pronounce it as demon or like Matt Damon?
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everfrustrated ◴[20 Oct 24 14:58 UTC] No.41895755[source]▶
I pedantically use day-mon (working/servant spirit) to distinguish from dee-mon (evil spirit) but I suspect I'm very much in the minority.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimon vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon

I've never found any significance to associate the unix term with Demons and consider it a mis-association.

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1. iwaztomack ◴[20 Oct 24 18:04 UTC] No.41897244[source]▶
Don't let MAGA hear you... they'll start banning and burning linux boxes.