Hi Ed

Thanks for the redirect - another piece of lore debunked :)

--et
Ed Gould wrote:
> 
> > 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 :)
> 
> Definitely false.  This usage of "wheel" dates to Tenex, which long-predates
> BSD.  Wheel was the Tenex equivalent (more or less) of root.
> 
>         --Ed