Rick Kelly skrev:

>Herb Peyerl said:

>>"Iggy Drougge" <iggy@kristallpojken.org>  wrote:
>> > >"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.
>>
>>I don't.

>I can't see any reason to change driver names. As I look around my network

One reason is that they're unintuitive. The example with the Etherlink drivers
someone posted is very illustrative. To me, it seems as though the programmer
just took an E and added whatever letter which was still free to the end.

>I see that le, for instance, is the same on NetBSD, SunOS, and Solaris.

Not too odd, concerning they all have common roots.

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