Message text written by INTERNET:[email protected] >I'll get off my soap box now, crawl back into my hole, and continue to lurk. I'm sure most of those who subscribe to TREG are lurkers like myself.
Just to stir the pot and see how many fish I can catch. Do you know that RS-232 no longer exists as a standard!< Thank you Greg for that dissertation. To make matters a bit worse, RJ indeed stands for "Registered Jack" BUT, at the time that Part 68 of the FCC Rules and Regulations was propagated, only the telepone companies were allowed to install the jacks and did not have to register them. The apparatus that was to plug into those jacks needed a matching plug, and that one did need to be registered. SO, in effect, there was a Registered Plug programme that was called a Regsitered Jack programme. So happy that all you lurkers will now understand the workings of governments. Greg is correct that Canada has a CA programme. At one time (long before I had white hair) I was very proud of developing it. CA stood for "Connecting Arrangement". Indeed it was to be a copy of the RJ programme but things went a bit off track when one Canadian mfr. insisted on including every jack they ever used in Canada, where many of those applications had never been used in the USA. C'est la Vie, as they say in Canada. The RS nomenclature comes to us from the Radio Manufacturers Association, which in time would change its name to the Electronic Industries Association, which split off what is now known as the Telecommunications Industry Association. It stood for "Recommended Standard", a nomikker that had to be dropped when both EIA and TIA became ANSI accredited Standards Development Organizations, and started developing American National Standards, instead of developing specifications that the associations recommended as standards. (EIA no longer stands for Electronic Industries Association, but now is the Electronic Industry Alliance). Ciao, Vic the historian
