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From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 04:00:19 +0000 (UTC)
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Subject: Re: More trivia: origin of the wheel group
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Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know why the wheel group is called "wheel"?

Have you considered looking this up in the Jargon File?

ESR may be a Linux zealot, hold controversial political opinions,
and look a bit like Quasimodo, but the Jargon File *is* a valuable
resource for this sort of arcana.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de