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From: morgan@JESSICA.STANFORD.EDU
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Subject: Re: What does "KFPS" mean?
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Date: 23 Nov 89 00:28:46 GMT
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> As I understand, "K" is for "Kinetics" and "FP" is for "FastPath". But
> what does the "S" come from? (Silly, useless question, I know...)

Could it be . . . Satan?       *8^)*

As someone already mentioned, it's for "Standalone", perhaps to
distinguish it from a LocalTalk board (for Unibus, was it?) that
Kinetics used to make, as I recall.  Actually, if you look in the docs
for the 4, they don't use the "KFPS" acronym anymore, but instead
refer consistently to "FastPath 4 gateway" or just "gateway".  When I
have to refer to one by abbreviation these days I write "KFP".  But
then, I call AppleTalk "LocalTalk", too.

 - RL "Bob" Morgan
   Networking Systems
   Stanford