Newer names

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Date: 08/30/03

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    Please read entire article before sending any comment to me.

    Why would any one wish to change the term "DAEMON", "D.A.E.Mon.", and "Disk
    and execution monitor", to a more fitting title.

    In practice this term has grown outdated. For today it stands that many
    people in the world abroad don't profusely rely on the veritable "disk based"
    storage as a complete solution. There are other storage mediums which are without a
    disk. For example: Flash cards, USB pen drives and the sort have no circular
    rotary disks.

    It would be more fitting to address the storage units as media or storage
    media. Thus the title DAEMON could be reverted to SMAEMON or Storage Media And
    Executon MONitor.

    Even further involved is the choice of the term "execution". The term
    execution, is not as precise as Tasks or Processes for a naming convention. For
    example, in Windows 2000, there is a task manager. In that task manager there are
    processes and applications that can be canceled.

    Sure, MIT's CTSS people came up with the term, DAEMON, as noted in
    www.dictionary.com, but would you want to keep it?

    In this world, would you like to have a term in the future that connotes a
    certain religious involvement? It could provoke any further controversy in the
    public if the Unix and Linux community goes even further into the Desktop
    market. Particularly groups of people could simply dismiss the operating system,
    since it has many references to a program that connotes an adverse spirits. Thus
    dissuading them from purchasing, developing, or involving there self in such
    a product. The mere suggestion of an affiliation or like thereof of an
    offending spirit, based on their preference of relation/religion with this life,
    would turn them away from such product.

    In other words, why would a spiritually right person want to associate with a
    daemon [demon]?

    Furthermore, society in general would benefit from a newer name than DAEMON.
    MS Windows, Novell NetWare, OS/2 Warp, Ecomstation, Sun's Solaris and several
    other operating system don't need this incorrect term floating around in their
    operating systems.

    As a practical usage this term adjustment sounds very much needed and desired
    when proposed to the IT community and the rest of the world.
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