I tend to agree with everything you said. Though, minor nitpick, I think you meant 80286 when you typed 80206. ;-)
True, 0 looks like 8 with cheap glasses :-)
What is an ECNE?
ECNE was Enterprise CNE. You had to pass the CNE, then additional tests on SNA networking, 3+ Open, some of the various gateways (Telephone), routers, and TCP/IP.
There weren't a lot of us, so they came out with the Master/CNE which I also got with Infrastructure/Advanced access domains. Still have the pins and the framed certs, those got me the job at the IEEE Computer Society despite being kicked out of college in the 80's. :-)
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