21 Mar
2018
21 Mar
'18
1:24 a.m.
On 03/20/18 14:04, Dan Cross wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 1:56 PM, George Michaelson
<ggm(a)algebras.org
<mailto:ggm@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.