Talk:Daemon (computing)
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Acronym legend?
[edit]The acronym expansion appears to be an urban legend. This query:
- The first daemon (an abbreviation for Disk And Executive MONitor) was a program that automatically made tape backups of the file system. Does this sound about right? Any corrections or additions? Thank you for your time!
to Fernando J. Corbato, head of the CTSS project where the word entered the computer lexicon, prompted the following reply:
- Your explanation of the origin of the word daemon is correct in that my group began using the term around that time frame. However the acronym explanation is a new one on me.
The page (it's in the article) which has this also notes that:
- Professor Jerome H. Saltzer, who also worked on Project MAC, confirms the Maxwell's demon explanation.
So I'd say this one is pretty definitively "busted"! Noel (talk) 17:19, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- How is it busted? It would only be busted if Corbato had provided the actual etymology; instead it only remains unproven. --148.84.19.92
I found the article, and Corbato also says it's from Maxwell. See [1]. Beinsane 21:43, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Popular type of daemons
[edit]- Web server
- FTP server
- IRC server
- Email server (POP3 and IMAP4) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Frap (talk • contribs) 05:09, 3 December 2005
poor processes
[edit]A daemon kills the parent and forces the orphan to become adopted. Sounds like an appropriate name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.167.246.211 (talk • contribs) 23:24, 28 July 2006
interrupt
[edit]this is a discussion page, this is my experience, if you dont agree you can ASK what i want.a deamon is infact an interrupt routine. most CPU's have several states off activity and have the abbility to have a list off programs and routines that will be checked every interrupt state. this is done with the IRQ number, the Interrupt ReQuest number and that number can be found in a list which will refeer to the correct program and then give CPU time to that specific routine. An example is the soundcard that has such dedicated IRQ number which helps with a continous sound created from the sound-deamon working from the background and maintaining a steady stream off bitrated sound bytes. Not every interrupt is a deamon. deamons are dedicated routine with a special task, like the constant bitstream of a wave file 80.57.172.40 (talk) 14:25, 23 April 2025 (UTC)