Re: Another competitive analysis

mjm (mjm@acld.lib.fl.us)
Mon, 14 Oct 1996 16:00:37 -0400

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Prof Jake Messinger <jake@ams.com>
wrote:

> > I knew there was a good reason people call them "Portmonsters".
>
> As far as I have seen, I have been the only one to call them Portmonsters.

Yeah, actually, i've never seen anyone on the portmaster-users list call them
that (in the two weeks or so that i've been on, now). It's just what a couple
of friends & i call them.

> But that is not a derrogatory statement. Think of what monsters are. THey
> are quite powerful, unstoppable, they crush their competition. They make

Yeah, like you, we don't mean it derogatorily, we're just in the habit of
giving cute/silly names to most stuff. It's just that usually, it's easier
to come up with a mean name for something we don't like (like MicroSloth,
BellSlouch, etc.)

> everthing else look small in comparison. So I consider Portmasters the
> Godzilla of Terminal Servers!

Yup, i replaced 4 8-port term servers with one 30-port PM, so in comparison
it IS a monster.