6 Sep
2002
6 Sep
'02
10 a.m.
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 01:13:27PM -0500, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
Because "Cee" is easier to pronounce than "slash twenty-four". Ease of use trumps open standards yet again :)
Nobody was talking. "/24" is easier to type than "class C". No trumps! Everybody loses! How many people learn about networks from certification courses or in school, anyway? It was always my impression that people learnt mainly by listening to other people. If networking on the front lines is an informal oral tradition more than it is a taught science, then perhaps it's natural for obsolete terminology to continue to be "taught" long after it stopped having any relevance. Joe