[rescue] weird problem

Fogg, James rescue at sunhelp.org
Tue Dec 18 15:10:23 CST 2001


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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~ 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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