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From: mccarthy@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: DAEMONs
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Date: Thu, 3-Sep-87 08:38:00 EDT
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Written  1:02 pm  Aug 28, 1987 by ba@pbhya.UUCP
>           About a year or so ago, someone told me what "DAEMON"
>           (not demon) meant.  And I have forgotten it since!  But it
>           was something along the line of Dynamic Access & Execution MONitor.
>                                       ^       ^        ^         ^^^

      That certainly is a catch-all phrase, and one that doesn't seem to
concisely describe what a daemon does.
      Could this be a case where the acronym was chosen before the phrase
that it stands for was?   :-)
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