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>
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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
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