pe@diab.se (Per Elmdahl) (11/21/89)
As I understand, "K" is for "Kinetics" and "FP" is for "FastPath". But what does the "S" come from? (Silly, useless question, I know...) -- Per Elmdahl pe@diab.se SM5OCI DDDD /\ DIAB DATA AB Phone: +46 13 110940 D D I AA BBB / \ Box 676 Fax: +46 13 133446 D D I AAAA B--B / / \ S-582 24 LINKOPING, SWEDEN DDDD I A A BBB /__/__/\
evan@sabine.rice.EDU (Evan Wetstone) (11/22/89)
In article <497@diab.se>, pe@diab.se (Per Elmdahl) writes: > As I understand, "K" is for "Kinetics" and "FP" is for "FastPath". But > what does the "S" come from? (Silly, useless question, I know...) I believe KFPS stands for Kinetics FastPath Standalone, but I could be mistaken. By the way, now that Kinetics is part of Novell, is it still going to be called a KFPS? or maybe a NFPS?....;-) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Evan R. Wetstone Internet: evan@rice.edu Network and Systems Support BITNET: evan@ricevm1 Rice University, Houston TX "No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style..."
morgan@JESSICA.STANFORD.EDU (11/23/89)
> As I understand, "K" is for "Kinetics" and "FP" is for "FastPath". But > what does the "S" come from? (Silly, useless question, I know...) Could it be . . . Satan? *8^)* As someone already mentioned, it's for "Standalone", perhaps to distinguish it from a LocalTalk board (for Unibus, was it?) that Kinetics used to make, as I recall. Actually, if you look in the docs for the 4, they don't use the "KFPS" acronym anymore, but instead refer consistently to "FastPath 4 gateway" or just "gateway". When I have to refer to one by abbreviation these days I write "KFP". But then, I call AppleTalk "LocalTalk", too. - RL "Bob" Morgan Networking Systems Stanford
inei@cs.glasgow.ac.UK (Nick Nei) (11/28/89)
Per Elmdahl writes:
As I understand, "K" is for "Kinetics" and "FP" is for "FastPath". But
what does the "S" come from? (Silly, useless question, I know...)
"S" stands for "Standalone".
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