Save the Demon!

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2005-Feb-10 04:39:13 +0100, Bj?rn K?nig <bkoenig at cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
>David Magda wrote:
>
>>It's "daemon", not "demon".

Or even "dæmon"

>It's a question whether you are British or American or understand it as 
>a proper name. ;-)

My dictionary has both as headwords with a reference from demon to
daemon (but not vice versa) and lists "a service program that is
called into action by the operating system" under daemon.  The
etymology is from greek "daimon" via latin "daemon".

-- 
Peter Jeremy