Herb Peyerl skrev:

>"Iggy Drougge" <optimus@canit.se>  wrote:
> > Why are BSD device names so terse? It isn't very intuitive if your
> > Etherlink III is called "ep" for no particular reason, and it even leads
> > to naming

>It's not named "ep" for "no particular reason".  I called it "ep"
>because when I got the datasheet on the card, it was called "Etherlink
>Parallel-tasking Ethernet Adapter"

That still doesn't explain the very terse name, though. There's a big leap
between "Etherlink Parallel-tasking Ethernet Adapter" and "ep". ;-)

> > conflicts. For example, "ed" is both the name for ESDI disks and a network
> > controller, IIRC. Wouldn't it be nice if devices were called etherlinkiii
> > instead of "ep" or etherexpress instead of "xi"?

>"etherlink 3" was the name 3com's marketing came up with after I wrote
>the driver.  So sorry.

Don't be sorry, that belongs in the past, though I think a new name for the
driver is since due.

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