The Origin of the word DaemonFrom Richard Steinberg/Mr. Smarty Pants (The Austin Chronicle): Professor Corbato I write a trivia column for a newspaper called The Austin Chronicle. Someone has asked me the origin of the word daemon as it applies to computing. Best I can tell based on my research, the word was first used by people on your team at Project MAC using the IBM 7094 in 1963. The first daemon (an abbreviation for Disk
