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> (1) it's merely an alternative spelling of "demon" Combine this with the BSD Daemon illustration [0] and you've got my personal idea of where daemon came fro
by themodelplumber 5y ago
> (1) it's merely an alternative spelling of "demon"
Combine this with the BSD Daemon illustration [0] and you've got my personal idea of where daemon came from.
Which was shattered just last week when I attended a conference presentation by a jungian analyst who definitely did not use daemon in the sense of demon.
That was a weird and frustrating moment.
0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon
- jerry1979 5y agoHow did the jungian analyst use daemon?
- imglorp 5y agoApocryphal encounter when Texas rednecks [sic] learned about the BSD mascot: https://unixsage.com/humor/daemonsintexas https://unixsage.com/humor/daemonsintexas
- mistersquid 5y ago> Native: And what kind of football team has the devil as a mascot? > Me: Oh, it’s not a team. It’s an operating – uh, a kind of computer. Branagan could have short-circuited all of this if she had only known (remembered?) Arizona. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparky_the_Sun_Devil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparky_the_Sun_Devil