I’d forgotten it’s an acronym. The history of computer science is fascinating.

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I never knew it was an acronym. This is amazing.

Ahhh makes sense

This is cool

Source?

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Had no idea. Thought computers were just so mysterious that developers would make sacrifices to fix their code and when they finally ran, just assumed it was just an entity controlling the machine 😬

Not an unreasonable deduction. 😆

Deep cut

What book is that from?

The word is the title. :)

Do you recommend it? The novel, right?

I’m reading it for a second time. 👍🏼

Solid rec

I thought it was named after Matt...

Very interesting wording, I remember using Daemon tools to run and emulate the virtual discs that I’d find amongst the Internets vast libraries. The private communities servers always had the best quality.

I think you’re thinking of emulators. Daemons are vastly simpler processes running at much lower levels.