Thanks for the detailed response, Clark. This info coupled with the
previous material on pin counts makes sense for me, now. I'd much rather
have the correct detail than the global generality provided to make
something "user-friendly". Too often user-friendly is a euphemism for "we
marketing types think the end user is as clueless as we are - and wants to
stay that way."
You may see yourself as a "designated driver," but I see you more like the
guys in the orange pickup trucks with the blinking lights and the sign that
says "Motorist Assistance" who frequent the main routes around my area. ;-)
Which brings to mind the VR components of the otherwise egregiously bad
"Net Force" books "created" by Tom Clancy & friends. Mostly rubbish, if a
fast read, but I did like the concept of merged consensual realities in VR
net cruising. I'm looking forward to walking the Web a la Neuromancer some day.
Regards,
Sp00ky
At 07:15 AM 5/31/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>[...snip...]
>The DB-25 is indeed a DB-25.
>
>Somewhere along the line people got lazy and started referring to all
>D type connectors as "DB" regardless of whether they were or not.
>What are commonly but erroneously referred to as a DB-9 and DB-15 are
>in fact DE-9 and DA-15 respectively.
>[...snip...]
>--
>Clark Martin
>Redwood City, CA, USA
>Macintosh / Internet Consulting
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>
>"I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway"
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