[TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised
Nemo Nusquam
cym224 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 21 05:24:51 AEST 2018
On 03/20/18 14:04, Dan Cross wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 1:56 PM, George Michaelson <ggm at algebras.org
> <mailto:ggm at algebras.org>> wrote:
>
> we call them "busses" because back in the day, real electrical
> engineers called any huge solid carrier of signal or power a bus line,
> because it looked like the way trolly busses got their power.
>
>
> THANK YOU! I have wondered about the etymology of the word "bus" in an
> electrical context for YEARS.
I thought they were written buss lines until IBM started dropping an 's'.
N.
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