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Your UMA wrapped the URL. Silly thing.

Jon Craig <jcraig03@tampabay.rr.com> types:
> Here it is:
> http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/projects/t1glossary2000/_disk_and_execution_monit
> or.html

The Jargon File entry <URL:
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/daemon.html > implies
that the acronym came after the name, and gives a bit more history.

	<mike
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