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From: greg@xios.XIOS.UUCP (Greg Franks)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: DAEMONs
Message-ID: <392@xios.XIOS.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 09:07:42 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  1 09:07:42 1987
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Reply-To: greg@sdn.UUCP (Greg Franks)
Organization: XIOS Systems Corporation, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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We just had a talk from Susam L. Rosenbaum from AT&T.  She was one of
the originals on the Multics project.  Daemon is term from that system. 
It is NOT an acronym.  The guy that created those little processes that
run around behind your back doing useful things was into greek
mythology.   I believe Multics predates TOPS-10 or whatever.  

By the way, the name 'cat' did not originate from 'conCATenate' despite
what the manuals say......  (Hint: its a pun on GCOS).

-- 
Greg Franks             XIOS Systems Corporation, 1600 Carling Avenue,
(613) 725-5411          Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1Z 8R8
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