[Tutor] Re: Tutor digest, Vol 1 #652 - 15 msgs

[Britt Green]

> > On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 04:27:30PM -0800, Sheila King wrote:
> > > I am mildly surprised at the very Unix-centric trend that recent
>responses
> > > have taken.
> >
> > I think that's because "daemon" is a Unix term. It has a pretty precise
> > meaning there (see man daemon on a linux system, for instance), but I've
> > never heard the term used for a Windows program...
> >

	I think under Windows (at least NT anyways) they're called "services". But 
they seem to be the same thing.

	Just my two cents, but I use both Windows and the Macintosh, but for 
coding, I've recently come to enjoy Linux. To me I feel much closer to the 
OS than I do with a GUI-based OS. Not to mention free coding utilities! 
:)

	As a horrible off-topic aside, someoen mentioned that when they hear of 
daemons, they think of Doom. I would invite that person to look at this 
link: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/ and see how someone combined 
both Doom and daemons! :)

	Now back to your regularly scheduled Python messages.

	Britt

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