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yogurtwrong@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

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    It’s from the phrase “big wheel”, meaning a person with a lot of power/influence. Similar to “big cheese”… It would have been better to use “cheese” instead of “wheel” IMO.

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      What if wheel referred to a wheel of cheese? Best of both worlds that way!

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        The first victim of the Cheese Wheel Wars: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/italy-cheesemaker-dies-crushed-falling-wheels-cheese-rcna98716

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      I always think of it as ‘being behind the wheel’, which gives control of whatever direction you want to steer into.

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      Pretty sure it’s not. I saw something on this topic a few weeks ago but can’t quite remember. Iirc, it was a term in an early early OS, where a bit in memory was the privilege but and could be set or unset by turning a real wheel on the computer. This Stück with some people developing UNIX, so they called the wheel group wheel, but none of them are sure who came up with this.

      Of course, this is just hearsay.

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