Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 11:28:26 -0700 From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Nadav Eiron <nadav@cs.technion.ac.il> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: daemon stories ( german customs ) Message-ID: <3481B04A.794BDF32@xmission.com> References: <199711301430.GAA12170@hub.freebsd.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:
> "Zion Curtain."????????
>
> know of Zion Gate, Mount Zion, but not "Zion Curtain."
A local phrase used to describe Utah's rather insular society. You'll
find
the word Zion used here more often than anywhere outside Israel, I
believe.
Two of our largest commercial institutions are Zion's Bank and ZCMI,
Zion's
Cooperative Mercantile Institute (the people who invented the department
store). There is even a "Zion's Surviellance." Scary.
> > Tangential story: the first two UNIX systems back at dear old
> > Clyde/Raxco/Axent, which was chock full of BYU graduates, were named
> > Ebed and Melech. Two netdollars to the first contributor who say why
> > they were given such odd names. ;^)
>
> transliteration form Hebrew words for slave, servant and
> king.
Nadav Eiron similarly answered this:
> Well, seems obvious: There was some kind of client/server or master/slave
> relationship between them??? (for those wondering, melech is Hebrew for
> king, and Eved - Hebrew for slave).
Nope.
Ebed-melech is the only *eunuch* mentioned by name in the Bible.
Jeremiah 38:7-13, if you're interested.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters
Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr
softweyr@xmission.com
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3481B04A.794BDF32>