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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!unix.sri.com!headwall.Stanford.EDU!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!convex!news.duke.edu!MathWorks.Com!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!csusac!csus.edu!netcom.com!jmonroy From: jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) Subject: Re: wheel? whats the history....? Message-ID: <jmonroyCuDCvI.5EG@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <32651r$5lc@penage.cs.laurentian.ca> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 1994 11:50:06 GMT Lines: 28 Doug Eastick (eastick@penage.cs.laurentian.ca) wrote: : Question popped into my head while driving home from the cottage/camp. : What is the history of group "wheel"? Is there an interesting : anecdote similar to biff(1)? : 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. : While working in a job-shop, I noticed the old timers would give the young "ambitous" guys a real poke. They go around the room and sing: I'm gonna be a wheel. I'm gonna be a wheel someday. I'm gonna be a wheel someday. I'm gonna be a wheel someday. Always pissed off the younger guys. BTW, a wheel is the bigger brother of a cog. -- Jesus Monroy Jr jmonroy@netcom.com Zebra Research /386BSD/device-drivers /fd /qic /clock /documentation ___________________________________________________________________________