On 2005-Feb-10 04:39:13 +0100, Bj?rn K?nig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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".
FWIW, Concise Oxford has:
demon n.
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5 (also daemon) a) an inner or attendant spirit; a genius (the demon of creativity). b) a divinity or supernatural being in ancient Greece.
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