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Вадим Илларионов пишет:
> Mikhail Kuligin wrote:
> 
>> Когда несколько лет назад стал интересоваться (как простой
>> пользователь) nix  системами, сразу смутило название сервисов -
>> "демон". Подумал, что нелогично в одной из самых продуманых ОС,
>> разрабатываемой, в основном, в христианском мире использование
>> понятий, связанных с враждемными к человеку силами.
> 
> Когда я начинал изучать линукс, нашёл, что демон - сокращение от device
> monitor, и что писать его следовало именно как demon, а не daemon.
> 
Статья:
http://www.linfo.org/daemon.html

По другому трактует происхождение акронима:

The word daemon was first used in a computer context at the 
pioneering Project MAC (which later became the MIT Laboratory for 
Computer Science) using the IBM 7094 in 1963. This usage was 
inspired by Maxwell's daemon of physics and thermodynamics, which 
was an imaginary agent that helped sort molecules of different 
speeds and worked tirelessly in the background. The term was then 
used to describe background processes which worked tirelessly to 
perform system chores. The first computer daemon was a program that 
automatically made tape backups. After the term was adopted for 
computer use, it was rationalized as an acronym for Disk And 
Execution MONitor.

Есть там и о самом слове...