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From: cym224@gmail.com (Nemo Nusquam)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:24:51 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised
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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.