On: What is the origin of “daemon” with regards to com...

[imglorp]

Apocryphal encounter when Texas rednecks [sic] learned about the BSD mascot:

https://unixsage.com/humor/daemonsintexas

[mistersquid → imglorp]

> Native: And what kind of football team has the devil as a mascot?

> Me: Oh, it’s not a team. It’s an operating – uh, a kind of computer.

Branagan could have short-circuited all of this if she had only known (remembered?) Arizona. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparky_the_Sun_Devil