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Re: Worst design decisions?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter E. Fry)
Thu Sep 18 12:19:55 2003

Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:02:08 -0500
From: "Peter E. Fry" <pfry@swbell.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


David Barak wrote:

> Personally my issues are console-cable related: is
> there a benefit to the HUGE variety of console pinouts
> used by the various hardware vendors?  Just look at
> vendor C as an example [...]

  Is that the best example you can come up with?  Ever use any Bay
equipment...?
  Heh.  Makes me want to add "I hate it when that happens", as in "Ever
put your head in a vise and crank it down real tight...?"

Peter E. Fry

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