[ale] A little gripe

[J.D. Forinash]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:44:24PM -0500, Ben Coleman wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think DCE never was "Data Computing
> Equipment" - it was "Data Communications Equipment".

Nope, that's a backpatch. See, back in the Ancient Days, you had 
Data Computing Equipment (mainframes) and Data Terminal Equipment (ttys).

Then came modems. And modems were DCE, because you wanted to wire 'em 
straight-through to your terminal. 

And then came bitty-boxes. And they were DTE so they could be wired straight
through to the modems.

So now we call DCE "Communications" instead of "Computing." 

-JDF
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