Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!pkatz From: pkatz@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk (Philip Katz) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: Abbreviation: RTFM Message-ID: <2652@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk> Date: 26 Sep 89 09:43:21 GMT References: <1812@servax0.essex.ac.uk> Sender: news@axion.bt.co.uk Reply-To: pkatz@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk Lines: 13 From article <1812@servax0.essex.ac.uk>, by and@servax0.essex.ac.uk (Holyer A): > And while we're at it, I know what a DELNI and a DEQNA are (is? are? dunno), > but does anyone know offhand what they stand for? Yep. `DEc Local Network Interface' and `DEc Q-bus Network Adaptor'. Most of the DEC things are quite easy to remember once you know what they stand for (a bit like UNIX, ins't it, `cp' and `pwd' and all that). Philip Katz, :|: PKatz@axion.bt.co.uk British Telecom Research Laboratories, :|: + 44 473 642682 RT3141, Martlesham Heath, :|: "Beat on the Brat ... Ipswich, Suffolk, England IP5 7RE :|: ... with a Baseball bat"