Aihuxn.142 net.misc utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!ihuxn!otto Fri Feb 19 21:17:37 1982 Meanings of demon and daemon I believe that the ARPAnet dictionary (on-line at places like MIT and Stanford) distinguishes between demon and daemon by saying that demons are used by user programs while daemons are used by operating systems. Thus daemons are superuser demons. George Otto Bell Labs, Indian Hill ihnss!ihuxi!otto ----------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.