Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Thick or Thin
Message-ID: <1989Oct5.155413.4818@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <42457@sgi.sgi.com> <2781@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <4028@phri.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 89 15:54:13 GMT

In article <4028@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
> The Sun 3/50 is about the worst in this respect...  Our DEC, Kinetics,
> and TCL gear seem to have somewhat better designed slides...

It's worth pointing out that the problems on the Suns are not just poor
design, they are out-and-out violations of the specs for the connector
mounting.  The connectors never get a chance to seat to their full depth.
Actually meeting the letter of the law of the specs takes work and is a
bit inconvenient; Sun didn't bother.
-- 
Nature is blind; Man is merely |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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