Re:what is the traslation of "deamon"?

[Isam Bayazidi <bayazidi at arabeyes dot org>]

Thank you very muc Hicham, 

On Monday 18 March 2002 03:07 am, Hesham Hassan wrote:
.....
> but here is the definition from the "the Jargon File":
> --- Definition ---
> daemon /day'mn/ or /dee'mn/ n.
>
> [from the mythological meaning, later rationalized as the acronym `Disk And
> Execution MONitor'] A program that is not invoked explicitly, but lies
> dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur. 

This is an acronym, I guess you know what we do with acronyms .. like HTML, 
FTP, and so .. remmember ? if it is an acronym then it SHOULD be either 
translitarated, or left as it is in the Latin letters .  In this case I guess 
that translitration would do .. 

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Yours,
Isam Bayazidi
Amman - Jordan
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