[rescue] weird problem

[Fogg, James]

I forget who or where, but I met the person who designed that sliding latch.
He was rather embarassed by it and admitted that he was probably universally
hated by any networker old enough to remember it.

Damn... I wish I could remember who that was.

~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: Chris Kennedy [mailto:chris at mainecoon.com]
~ Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 4:02 PM
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~ Subject: RE: [rescue] weird problem 
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~ 
~ Al Potter wrote:
~ 
~ > <stump-the-monkey=1>
~ > 
~ > OK Joshua, what's a DIX connector and what's DIX mean?
~ 
~ 
~ It's the god-awful sliding metal latch used on Ethernet
~ connectors. DIX: Digital-Intel-Xerox.
~ 
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