Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 08:16:06 -0800 From: "IT3 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR-R" <stuart@bh90210.net> Message-id: <000701c1b572$e87e3910$fcd1aace@GLOBAL01> Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] Happy Meal Errors
Mr. Dicks:
I am glad you did not think I was trying to insult you, because
I was not. But you may well be right, perhaps Happy Meal is the nick
name or some internal development name for that interface, but the FE
Manual refers to a Hundred Megabit Ethernet card.
Very Respectfully,
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ethan Dicks [mailto:ethan_dicks@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 8:12 AM
To: stuart@bh90210.net; erd@iname.com; 'Alvaro Figueroa';
suse-sparc@suse.com
Cc: 'Eric Weinstein'
Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] Happy Meal Errors
--- "IT3 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR-R" <stuart@bh90210.net> wrote:
> Mr. Dicks:
>
> Ah, that is the problem, I didn't read the FAQ! Silly me, I read
> the Field Engineering manual from Sun, where it refers to the HME as
the
> Hundred Megabit Ethernet.
You are lucky to have a Field Engineering Manual. Before your message,
I have never heard HME refer to "Hundred Megabit Ethernet". I suspect,
then, that the engineers referred to the chipset by its internal
nickname
and that reference leaked out of Sun, and that "Hundred Megabit" is the
Marketing name (cf. "Comet" and "Scorpio" and other engineering names
for models of VAX CPU that appear in comments in various DCL script
files
that ship with the OS).
>
> Very Respectfully,
No insult intended.
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