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From: tp@granite.dec.com (t patterson)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Need configuration info for various DEC ethernet widgets
Keywords: DEC ether widgets
Message-ID: <325@granite.dec.com>
Date: 24 Nov 88 06:37:14 GMT
References: <3607@phri.UUCP> <108@gnome6.pa.dec.com> <3609@phri.UUCP> <922@bacchus.dec.com>
Reply-To: tp@granite.dec.com (t patterson)
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In article <922@bacchus.dec.com> vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) writes:
...
># 	And, if you can stand one more question, who named all the friggin'
># boxes?  I mean, DE followed by 3 random letters?  Can't get much more
># confusing than that, especially why you are trying to ask questions over
># the phone: "I'm sorry, did you say DEmumble or DEmumble?"

    they're fairly pronounceable. most people seem to say the words rather
than rattling off the letters one by one.

...
>The names all stand for something.  Most DEC part names do, believeitornot.
>
>DELNI = Digital(?) Ethernet(?) Local Network Interconnect
>DESPR =                        Single Port Repeater
>DEMPR =                        Multi
>DEUNA =                        Unibus Network Adaptor
>DEQNA =                        Q-bus
>DELUA =                        Lowpower Unibus networkAdaptor (okay, it's poor)
>DELQA =                                 Q-bus
>DESTA =                        (beats me)

 DESTA =   "	       "	Station ThinWire Adaptor (i think)
 DELUA =   "           "        LAN Unibus Adaptor

 another popular one is 

 DEREP	   "	       "        REPeater

 I cheated -- I looked in the "DEC Direct" catalog -- it doesn't come right
 out and say what the acronyms stands for, but it hints at them.
 (The "Digital Dictionary" does tell you, but the 2nd edition I've got 
 here only covers the old stuff like DEUNA.)

 DEC "Network and Communications Buyer's Guide" -- a great read for a frosty
winter night -- no :-) -- goes into further depth so you can get into 
DECOM, DEFTR, DEPCA, DESVA and DEBET. Oh, yeah, and NIA20.

 then there's one you won't find in the catalog: DEBAUCH

 your friendly neighborhood DEC sales rep can either help you find some of
 this literature or stare blankly and say, "Duh, I dunno. Wanna buy a VAX?"
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