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An intellectual question
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| strikeattack 2001-09-29, 4:31 pm |
| This question is for all of you intellectuals out there that pride yourself with your knowledge of Cisco material and the OSI model.
I was looking over my notes for the BSCN exam, when I noticed that one line was not quite right. Can someone out there spot the inconsistency, even though it is slight? Dr. Cisco, Depamo, Dmaftei, or Yankee, if you know the answer, don't give it away quite yet. Although it would not surprise me if all four of you you knew... This is more of a OSI trivial question, rather than anything that you will find directly useful! I simply thought it would be fun to post.
Here is the paragraph...
"OSI:
The OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) model was created in 1984 by ISO (International Standards Organization) in order to provide a network model for vendors so that their products would interoperate on networks. A common mnemonic device used is: (A)ll (P)eople (S)eem (T)o (N)eed (D)ata (P)rocessing." | |
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| ISO stands for International Organization for Standardization | |
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| Here is the paragraph...
"OSI:
The OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) model was created in 1984 by ISO (International Standards Organization) in order to provide a network model for vendors so that their products would interoperate on networks. A common mnemonic device used is: (A)ll (P)eople (S)eem (T)o (N)eed (D)ata (P)rocessing."
The only thing that pops right out at me, is that ISO stands for International Organization for Standardization, not International Standards Organization.
Was that too slight?
Let me know before I look further. | |
| strikeattack 2001-09-29, 5:00 pm |
| Great job.
Both of your are correct. ISO is not an abbreviation. It is a word, rather, derived from the Greek word isos, which means "equal". Isos is the root for the prefix "iso".
Just a useless tidbit of ISO knowledge. | |
| dmaftei 2001-09-29, 10:32 pm |
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Originally posted by strikeattack
ISO is not an abbreviation.
How on earth did you find this out?! Give us the links!  | |
| strikeattack 2001-09-30, 7:32 am |
| K, heres one. There are others, but I could not get the links to work properly.
First Link
You can also do a search using keywords: ISO, acronym, greek, and International. You should find some more links. | |
| pcwizzard 2001-09-30, 9:08 pm |
| This was an intellectual question.... Only to a "newbie" maybe.... | |
| Retired-Mod 2001-10-01, 3:40 am |
| and I thought "ISO" was "in search of..."
Yankee | |
| strikeattack 2001-10-01, 7:17 pm |
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This was an intellectual question.... Only to a "newbie" maybe....
Thats why I posted it in the CCNA forum... | |
| pcwizzard 2001-10-02, 4:34 pm |
| Well like the source you quoted from, if you go to the IT Pro site from compTIA and look in the accronym part they also have it as "Internationl Standards Organization". We all know what it really stands for, but you would think that the Computing Technology Industry Association would atleast get it right. | |
| dmaftei 2001-10-02, 7:11 pm |
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Originally posted by strikeattack
quote:
Originally posted by pcwizzard
This was an intellectual question.... Only to a "newbie" maybe....
Thats why I posted it in the CCNA forum...
ROTFLOL. C'mon, Mike, give in, you're a newbie.  | |
| strikeattack 2001-10-02, 7:19 pm |
| Okay, I admit it. I'm a sham. I flim-flam. A skake-oil salesman. A scheister. All of my posts to date have been cut and pastes from Cisco's website and no one has noticed. Half of the time I make up words when I answer questions just to see if anyone catches it. |
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