Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!telecom-request From: dave@westmark.westmark.com (Dave Levenson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Information Needed on WITS and PREMISE Message-ID: Date: 12 Mar 91 04:52:47 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: Westmark, Inc., Warren, NJ, USA Lines: 18 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 199, Message 6 of 13 In article , jlangri@relay.nswc.navy.mil writes: > Does anyone know what the acronym WITS stands for? I've looked at > every list I've got including one posted to telecom back around the > end of January. I've been told it is *believed to be* a telecom > acronym. I believe it stands for Wire Inventory Tracking System, a now-obsolete data-processing system once used by the operating companies to keep records of local loop connections. Dave Levenson Internet: dave@westmark.com Westmark, Inc. UUCP: {uunet | rutgers | att}!westmark!dave Warren, NJ, USA AT&T Mail: !westmark!dave Voice: 908 647 0900 Fax: 908 647 6857