Howard C. Berkowitz wrote: > At 5:00 PM +0000 9/10/03, Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote: > >>Tim Champion wrote: >> >>> All the info relating to this book is good and I'm going to buy >>> on the back >>> of these reviews but....... what makes people write switching >>> related poems? >> >>Because if we don't laugh at ourselves then we have to cry! :-) You should >>have heard the explanations of a brouter back in the 80s. You think people >>are confused now, but they were even more confused back then! And now we >>have Layer 3 switches! >> >>Priscilla > > > Brouter was bad enough. Then, when Synoptics and Cisco were > contemplating a merger of Synoptics hubs and Cisco routers, the term > (see the little green Cisco glossary) was Rub and Rubsystem.
Contemplating? I seem to recall a Cisco router blade that we tested in about 1990 that you plugged into a Snyoptics hub. > > Later, when Cisco came out with combined hubs and routers, the > official term was hublet. When I asked one of my classes if anyone > knew the new term, someone replied "houter?" (use American > pronunciation). I like the Queens English pronunciation better ;) Dave > **Please support GroupStudy by purchasing from the GroupStudy Store: > http://shop.groupstudy.com > FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html > -- David Madland CCIE# 2016 Sr. Network Engineer Qwest Communications 612-664-3367 "Emotion should reflect reason not guide it" Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=75208&t=75030 -------------------------------------------------- **Please support GroupStudy by purchasing from the GroupStudy Store: http://shop.groupstudy.com FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html
