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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!MathWorks.Com!news.kei.com!ssd.intel.com!chnews!ornews.intel.com!news.jf.intel.com!news.jf.intel.com!mike From: mike@ichips.intel.com (Mike Haertel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: wheel? whats the history....? Date: 09 Aug 1994 04:10:49 GMT Organization: Intel Corporation Lines: 9 Message-ID: <MIKE.94Aug8211049@pdx399.intel.com> References: <32651r$5lc@penage.cs.laurentian.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: pdx399.intel.com In-reply-to: eastick@penage.cs.laurentian.ca's message of 8 Aug 1994 16:37:15 -0400 In article <32651r$5lc@penage.cs.laurentian.ca> eastick@penage.cs.laurentian.ca (Doug Eastick) writes: >My 1st guess is that the wheel is analagous to driving a vehicle and >you should only let responsible people (who can su to root) get behind >the wheel. Hmm, I always thought it meant "big wheel". See also "Wheel wars" in some version or another of the hacker's dictionary... -- Mike Haertel <mike@ichips.intel.com>