Talk:Daemon (computer software)
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The acronym expansion appears to be an urban legend. This query:
- The first daemon (an abbreviation for Disk And Executive MONitor) was a program that automatically made tape backups of the file system. Does this sound about right? Any corrections or additions? Thank you for your time!
to Fernando J. Corbato, head of the CTSS project where the word entered the computer lexicon, prompted the following reply:
- Your explanation of the origin of the word daemon is correct in that my group began using the term around that time frame. However the acronym explanation is a new one on me.
The page (it's in the article) which has this also notes that:
- Professor Jerome H. Saltzer, who also worked on Project MAC, confirms the Maxwell's demon explanation.
So I'd say this one is pretty definitively "busted"! Noel (talk) 17:19, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- How is it busted? It would only be busted if Corbato had provided the actual etymology; instead it only remains unproven. --148.84.19.92
I found the article, and Corbato also says it's from Maxwell. See [1] (http://www.takeourword.com/TOW146/page4.html). Beinsane 21:43, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
It will be of a great help if someone points to HOW to build the "daemon" applictaions here, with elementary examples.
- Under any Unix or GNU system, just call the daemon(3) function.
- Teddy 80087 07:17, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
phantom
who the heck calls a daemon a phantom? --Eean 01:15, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- ditto --148.84.19.92