making the call on Musk now. he flipped long ago and has been instrumental in helping with the redpilling of the world with the way he's run X/twitter.
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daemon.
Wikipedia may claim the fancy spelling is different but that's the work of spooks. Just one look at the BSD mascot and you know that's nonsense.
Who said Wikipedia? It was daemon in the '60s - WAY before BSD and Linux, and even before UNIX showed up. If you have a *NIX box just type "man daemon" at the cli. Then type "man demon". I think you know what will show up and what won't.
The BSD mascot (his name is Beastie - BeeEssDee - get it?) was created as a play on the word daemon. His trident he holds actually symbolizes processes forked from a daemon. Later on people tried to say daemon was an acronym "Disk And Execution Monitors", but it has been daemon since before the beginning of UNIX (which split into SYSV and BSD UNIX and the rest is history.)
BTW - if you look at my username, and you know some UNIX/Linux history, you can figure out why I chose dec3169. Hint - my name/description in the GECOS field of the /etc/passwd files used to be "Tomorrow...". And no - I wasn't born yet, but it wasn't long after that. I also have run both SYSV and BSD UNIX, All of the free BSDs, and Linux since 1990 (UNIX in 90-91, *BSD in early '92, and Linux ever since). I ran the BSDs for maybe 6 months and dumped them for Linux in summer 1992. I did have an old PC with Minix on it but it never worked properly, probably because I got it from a dumpster. I was bummed.
Ok, you win. Extra points for mentioning DEC and not that gawdawful VMS. In the 80s I did some coding on a pdp-11 running BSD and loved it. But anything on VMS was a chore. I know people who still suffer with that even today because companies refuse to update their workflows. Meanwhile the vax hardware no longer exists so it's running on a virtual machine on a windows blade server. Crazy.
Anyhow, I always called em demons when I wrote em. But I'm dyslexic so spellings not my strong suit. I actually only noticed people using the extra A maybe a decade ago, so i figured it was more history modification like the backronym you mentioned, or possibly some British spelling affectation. :)