On 07/06/2018, Jeremy C. Reed <reed(a)reedmedia.net> wrote:
See this long thread
https://minnie.tuhs.org//pipermail/tuhs/2018-March/thread.html#13142
Sorry the thread is long, but some of it tells us where it comes from.
(It predates Unix.
http://multicians.org/mgd.html )
And speaking of daemons, does anyone know the origin of that
photograph on the Web showing someone in priestly garb shaking an
aspergillum at a row of servers with the caption "Daemon Stop!".
N.