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From: smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: An informal survey [slide-locks]
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Date: 30 Apr 91 13:44:00 GMT
References: <1991Apr23.001727.26953@phri.nyu.edu> <72554@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <1991Apr30.010639.1288@Eyring.COM>
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In article <1991Apr30.010639.1288@Eyring.COM>, ron@Eyring.COM (Ron Holt) writes:
> His name is Rich Seifert. ....  I was fed up
> with the RS-232C connectors that fell off because the tiny screw driver
> necessary to tighten them down was never handy.

Amen!  While it's now obvious to everyone that the slide latch doesn't work
well, I have the suspicion that many of its critics haven't used RS-232
very much.  For those of us who've fought with missing screwdrivers,
inconsistent use of male vs. female connectors, protruding nuts bumping
into each other, gender benders, strange and wondrous uses of RTS and CTS,
and disagreements about the True Meaning of DSR and CD, the Ethernet
spec is a marvel of consistency.  They were certainly an experiment worth
trying.