According to the jargon file, ITS called daemons dragons and SAIL (whatever this is ?) called them phantoms. Add to that zombie processes on Unix and user rights angels from FreeBSD's capsicum and the fact that processes come from executable files in ELF format and have debug infos in DWARF and it is quite the fantasy menagerie.
I suggest Kobold for whatever kind of process we need to name next.
Read a few articles and even novels from the 80s and poeple constantly refer very good programmers as "wizards". Also the sub culture of DND sticks hard. I guess most likely the reason was computer programming back in 80s was mostly low level considering one had to use assembly/C/Pascal for serious PC programming.
SAIL was the Stanford AI Lab. Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy founded the MIT AI lab; John was recruited by Stanford and started a lab there. It was in the lovely DC Powers building in the foothills -- despite what you would think "DC Powers" was actually someone's name!
It also had a PDP-10 and a TV system but of course it's own implementation of both the TV hardware and the PDP-10 O/S (WAITS)
I can't find a picture of the building unfortunately -- it was really cool.
Wrong: it's the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (founded 1962 by John McCarthy -- who co-authored the document that first defined AI as a field, invented LISP, time sharing, and garbage collection, heavily influenced the design of ALGOL, and so on: one of the pioneers of computer science):
Interesting, only in the anecdotal sense, that in today's world of incessant "AI" hype, a top commenter on HN would not have encountered the SAIL acronym.
I suggest Kobold for whatever kind of process we need to name next.