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Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 15:49:19 +0200
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Erik Trulsson wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 04:13:20PM +0200, Hendrik Hasenbein wrote:
> 
>>Vitali Malicky wrote:
>>
>>>What about DRAGON? There is also such a term as DRAGON. Yes, I'm all
>>>serious. cron is a DRAGON, for example. DRAGON is a process which may run
>>>other processes periodically under a user specified. What about it? And 
>>>many
>>>my colleagues, and me as well, refer to it also as PROCESS.
>>
>>You've made me curious. Can you explain me the acronym DRAGON? Or did 
>>you just make that up?
> 
> 
> 'Dragon' is not an acronym. It is just a name. 'Daemon' is not an
> acronym either despite what some people tell you.
> The expansion 'Disk And Execution MONitor' was made up after the term
> 'daemon' had come in use, and should not be used.

I believe the correct term is a backronym :)

David