At 3:17 PM -0500 9/10/03, MADMAN wrote: >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.
Oh yes...just like they did with Cabletron. Those were OEM agreements rather than an actual merger. >> >>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 Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=75210&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
