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Subject: Re: satan, 666, goat's blood
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Date: Tue, 3-Feb-87 12:05:11 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  3 12:05:11 1987
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The name daemon has long been used in the PDP-10 (36 bit) world,
TOPS-10 has the DAEMON job that historically served user requests to
create core dumps, very long term sleep wakeups, acounting file, and
system error log entries.  DAEMON communicated with the monitor by a
SPY segment, that is instead of a pure text segment it had a read only
mapping of the monitor, and returned data via a special call.

Daemon is sometimes spelled deamon.  Another term for daemon is
dragon, ITS has PFTMGD "Puff the Magic Dragon" that does magic things
(like at/cron)

Un*x has long had 'lpd', and while TOPS-10 was born a decade before
Un*x I'm unsure when the DAEMON appeared?

	Anyone prepared to kindle my hair on all this?

		Phil Budne
		Boston University
		Distributed Systems Group of
		Distributed Computing and Communications section of
		DisInformation Technology