FWIW,
"Wiktionary" allows for both. But I would concede that CAS and HPL would prefer the daemonic over the demonic.
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A little useless trivia: In the early 90's I knew a company tech. rep. for H-P who showed me a lot about
computers. If you are knowledgeable on same as an example he used to take Assembly language Programming
courses - for fun! Anyway, he was the one who introduced the word "daemon" to me. I saw it showing up on
screens when H-P PC's were booted up. He explained that a daemon was a program which would lay dormant,
that is "lurking" until a set of events would "summon" it to perform its' code function(s). This was using
the old H-P version of Unix.
I still have my well-worn copy of, "The Hacker's Dictionary, 2nd Edit." from 1993 and it also carries a listing
for "daemon" which confirms that usage. I don't think anybody cares about that book anymore because it describes
a geek-culture built around deep technical knowledge of computers as tools which have hidden value as toys to
those who master the archana needed to manipulate them when in fact Users today see them primarily as toys they
are occasionally forced to use in a productive manner. An analogy to the Necronomicon perhaps? But I would still maintain
that "daemon" is NOT an archaic or obscure term but still current in the sense I gave above.
Also, Bill Gates *is* SATAN.
Cathexis