[ale] A little gripe

[James Kinney]

Close. "Damn Computing Error" is, I belive, the most _accurate_ phrase for
the acronym DCE. For DTE is was "Terminal" instead of "Computing".

:}

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Ben Coleman wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 17:03:54 -0400, J.D. Forinash wrote:
>
> >...and then there's the fact that DCE and DTE are backward-- computers are
> >no longer "data computing equipment", they're "data terminal equipment"...
> >(Hysterical reasons.)
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think DCE never was "Data Computing
> Equipment" - it was "Data Communications Equipment".
>
> Ben
>

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