Aihuxn.142
net.misc
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!ihuxn!otto
Fri Feb 19 21:17:37 1982
Meanings of demon and daemon
I believe that the ARPAnet dictionary (on-line at places like MIT and
Stanford) distinguishes between demon and daemon by saying that demons
are used by user programs while daemons are used by operating systems.
Thus daemons are superuser demons.

George Otto
Bell Labs, Indian Hill
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