Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!cmcl2!phri!roy
From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Looking for comments on the 15-pin ethernet connector
Message-ID: <3360@phri.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jun 88 01:20:22 GMT
References: <16136.8806161312@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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andy@cs.hw.ac.UK writes:
> About 3 years back we at Spider Systems decided that slidelocks were
> useless, and ever since have been fitting screwlocks instead to all our
> terminal servers, bridges and stuff.

	A big "Thank you!" to the folks at Spider for having the courage to
stand up in public and (proudly) admit that they did something non-standard
because it was better.  Not just better, but a hell of a lot better, and
downward-compatable to boot!  Now all we have to is get all the other
network vendors to do the same thing (and get catalog houses like Inmac to
start stocking screw-post drop cables).  Sun may say "The network is the
computer" but I say "the connector is the network"!

	Could you imagine if 50 companies a day, I say 50 companies a day
stood up and said "slide locks suck" and started shipping screw-in ethernet
connectors?  I'd be a revolution, friends. (Apologies to Arlo Guthrie).
-- 
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
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