Why are demons called demons?

Question

It took me a very long time to itch to find out what is the historical reason for invoking daemons or daemon threads

Lat: daemon , Latin version of the Greek "δαίμων" ("divine power, destiny, god")

• the God
• subordinate deity as a genius of a place or a person of a companion spirit

There are many questions explaining what demons are and how they behave , but no one explains the origin of the term “demon” for programs that run in the background, for example sshd.

Why do we name programs that run in the background as daemons?

Answer 1

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According to Fernando J. Corbato, who worked for Project MAC in 1963, the team was the first to use the term daemon. The use of the term daemon was inspired by Maxwell's demon, in physics and thermodynamics, as an imaginary agent that helped sort molecules.

"We bizarrely started using the word daemon to describe the background of processes that worked tirelessly on duty."

In the Unix System Administration Guide, Evie Nemeth states that the following are about daemons:

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