On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:42:23 -0500 Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote: > Actually, I think daemons first showed up in the _Fiend Folio_, which > means we have the British to thank for this confusion. ;-) > What about Maxwell's daemon? This is usually thought to be the computer origin of the term. 19th Century. http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Daemon.html Jim Penny