yep > According to Fernando J. Corbato who worked on Project MAC in 1963, his team was the first to use the term daemon, inspired by Maxwell's demon, an imagin

yep > According to Fernando J. Corbato who worked on Project MAC in 1963, his team was the first to use the term daemon, inspired by Maxwell's demon, an imaginary agent in physics and thermodynamics that helped to sort molecules. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(computing)#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(computing)#Etymology I'd appreciate the cool factor if computing stuck with the ligature, but I wouldn't appreciate looking up how to type it every time.