In article <199711020658.WAA22079@andare.fugue.com> you write:
> I don't disagree with you, but I think you need to come up with an
> alternative in order to convince people - just knocking the daemon
> isn't going to do it.

I like the daemon, personally, but if we need an alternative how about
an octopus? The tentacles indicate the "multi-ness" (-platform,
-compatability, -tasking, -user, and maybe eventually -processor).

Anyone remember Richard Scarrey books from their childhood? I remember one
had a picture of an happy, smiling, octopus selling paintbrushes (one in
each hand, er, tentacle). Something along those lines, maybe. A
different tool in each tentacle. And one can be a red pitchfork :-)