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From: rlstewart@eng.xyplex.com (Bob Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: An informal survey
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Date: 22 Apr 91 17:07:19 GMT
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> The Ethernet spec was apparently written by someone who either was not
> a mechanical engineer, or did not have any experience with automated
> manufaturing.  The reputation of the slide lock will probably never
> recover from that oversight.

Yup.  I know the guy.  At the Ethernet 10 year reunion last fall, he asked
what the designers would do differently.  He (an electrical engineer)
perpetrated the slide lock.  He regrets it, and he wouldn't do it again.
For what it's worth, the idea of the slide lock comes from the late 70s,
when automated manufacturing techniques were probably a bit different.

	Bob