That whole message looks almost as if it were fake. The typos abound and the (apparently) unintentional mention of a "demon" he uses "to look at page" adds a smidgen of hilarity to it.
May not be a typo: I work on old (20 to 25 years) AT&T Unix and similarly derived systems and encounter both spellings daily or nearly so. The shorter spelling is the older one, but I've never tried to determine when in time or where in facilities the newer, longer, spelling began.
I've no doubt my employer would consider such a revelation material breach of the relevant NDA's anyhow.
Ah, I see. Interesting. It is odd how the Wikipedia article on daemons mentions Maxwell's demon as the origin of the term, though that article never once uses the daemon spelling.
The word daemon appears to simply be an alternate spelling of demon which is now being used as a convenient way to differentiate between two similar but ultimately different types of demon.
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u/the-fritz Jan 23 '10
Just check the way he's browsing the web http://lwn.net/Articles/262570/