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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Re: Boycott Apple Again -- Now about Suns
Summary: Just defending my .signature
Message-ID: <3491@phri.UUCP>
Date: 17 Sep 88 14:24:57 GMT
References: <358@island.uu.net> <626@mace.cc.purdue.edu> <14301@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <406@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> <620@bnlux0.bnl.gov>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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Either drs@bnlux0.UUCP (David R. Stampf) or hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard
Chu), it's not clear which from the attributions, writes:

> Just as the most trivial of problems, you might wonder at the coined phrase
> (sorry, I forget who I'm stealing this from) "the connector is the network."

	1) It was "stolen" from me.  I guess it's too late to apply for a
trademark, right? :-(

	2) Stop wondering what it means.  It's a dig against Sun for
putting such crappy ethernet tranceiver connectors on their machines, and
is a direct parody of their "the network is the computer" slogan.  You
would think that a company which makes products which depend so much on
networking (let's face it, a diskless workstations with a disconnected
tranceiver cable is just a very large paperweight) would pay more attention
to how they plug into that network.
-- 
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
{allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net
"The connector is the network"