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From: tml@pitt.edu (Tom Link)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: BSD demon?
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Date: 18 Aug 93 20:30:54 GMT
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Michael Bryan (michael@resonex.com) wrote:
>
>>>What is the history on this?  Is it a play on the word daemon?
>
> Which obviously means that BSD is actually a satanic cult, 

According to "The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language"
((c)1979 Houghton Mifflin Company of Boston) ``deamon'' and ``daimon''
mean:
	An inferior divinity, such as a deified hero. (from Greek mythology)
or
	An attendant spirit; a genius.
While ``demon'' has these and several other meanings including the
evil spirit or devil that you seem to be refering to.

"Attendent spirit" seems to fit the unix use of ``deamon''.

: and we should all shun it (and any variants) in favor of the One True Unix,
: the Almighty System V.

There is a lot of BSD code in System V.  According to the the lawsuit 
filed by the Regents of UCB against USL, upto 50% of System V is BSD
code.  The same suit asks that the BSD code be removed from System V. 
Which, in my opinion, would kill "The Almight System V."
 
Tom
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