The version I heard was that the 'wheel bit' was used to describe the
supervisor mode of a certain processor architecture BSD was being ported
too. The idea then kinda stuck to make root part of the supervisor or
wheel group.

Truth or lore - who knows, it sure sounds nice though :)

--et

Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 
> In article <200108201703.NAA10918@grex.cyberspace.org> you wrote:
> > Trivial question, but how did the wheel group get its name?
> 
> I think this is the right definition from webster:
> a person of importance especially in an organization <a big wheel>
> 
>  - Hubert
> 
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