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Date:      Tue, 15 Apr 2003 20:43:30 +0100
From:      Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
To:        Per-Arne Holtmon =?unknown-8bit?B?QWv4?= <perarneh@online.no>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD logo...
Message-ID:  <20030415194330.GB51798@submonkey.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030415193628.GI80286@online.no>
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 09:36:28PM +0200, Per-Arne Holtmon Akø wrote:

> Daemon is actually an acronym for `Disk And Execution MONitor'. See
> http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/entry/daemon.html for more information.

Stinks like a backronym to me.

Ceri

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