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How do you pronounce daemon? (piefed.zeromedia.vip)

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Demon? Damon? Or something more exotic?

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[–] CallMeAl@piefed.zip 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In case you ever wondered where it came from in computing.

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought it was a reference to Maxwell's demon.

Daemons in computing, generally processes that run on servers to respond to users, are named for Maxwell's demon.

[–] CallMeAl@piefed.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Yes the CTSS crew were reportedly thinking of Maxewell's demon but also chose to change it to the "daemon" spelling to make it sound more like a "friendly garden spirit than a monster" and the pronounced it "deemon".