From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Nov 30 10:19:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA22874 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 10:19:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA22860; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 10:18:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from softweyr@xmission.com) Received: from obie [199.104.124.49] by mail.xmission.com with smtp (Exim 1.73 #4) id 0xcDx5-00063l-00; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 11:18:44 -0700 Message-ID: <3481B04A.794BDF32@xmission.com> Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 11:28:26 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , Nadav Eiron CC: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: daemon stories ( german customs ) References: <199711301430.GAA12170@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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