Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:57:01 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christoph Weber-Fahr <listmail@helena.callcenter.systemhaus.net> To: hm@hcs.de Subject: Re: irritating messages in all ttyv's Message-ID: <199905120857.KAA21840@helena.otelo-call.de> In-Reply-To: <m10hTTn-0000fMC@hcswork.hcs.de> from Hellmuth Michaelis at "May 12, 99 09:30:58 am"
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Hallo, > > - What's a PBX? > > Private Branch Exchange. Now he knows! Ha! :-) More localized: 'Telefonanlage'. It's a term from the Telecommunications Industry. 'Private' doesn't imply anything non-business related, but simply means customer equipment from their point of view. It's main property is that 'we do not own it'. (The whole telco terminology is riddled with this slightly strange point of view, cf the mess with 'DCE' and 'DEE') Not suprisingly the opposite thing (die 'Vermittlungsstelle') is typically not called 'Public Branch Exchange (PBX)', either :-) Regards Christoph Weber-Fahr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message
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