If that's the quality of reference they accept, there is simply no reason to take anything they publish as gospel. Sorry.

Why is a minimum ethernet frame size necessary? Answers Best Answer: By defining the minimum ethernet frame size, you ensure that all necessary information is being transferred at each transmission. The minimum frame size breaks down like this: Size is 64 bytes. Destination Address (6 bytes) Source Address (6 bytes) Frame Type (2 bytes) Data (46 bytes) CRC Checksum (4 bytes) 46 bytes must be transmitted at a minumum, with additional pad bytes added to meet frame requirements. Source(s): 10 years in the IT industry

Perhaps Wikipedia would be satisfied if we could get Ken to write a letter to some current published journal, saying that he's the one who named cron, he's heard people are interested in how it got that name, here's how. We could then cite that as a reference. On the other hand, this may be an example of the degree to which one should trust Wikipedia. The `command run on notice' acronym claim is backed up by an article from the AUUG (Hi Warren!) Proceedings, 1994, in which the first reference to cron gives that explanation with no further reference. If that's the quality of reference they accept, there is simply no reason to take anything they publish as gospel. Sorry. Norman Wilson Toronto ON Proud that no one has yet made a spurious Wikipedia page asserting the etymology of my personal domain name.