Hiya Mike,
On 06-10-97, whilst lying in the gutter of the information super highway, I 
heard Mike Bilow whispering to Simon Harmel about Network help!,
 MB> (slightly incorrectly) called a "hub."  When you use a concentrator,
I would question the "(slighty incorrectly)" bit here. If 3Com et al call 
them hubs in their catalogues then a hub is quite likely /a/ correct name for 
them. If you consider the topology of a hubbed Ethernet and then think of a 
hub on say, an old wagon wheel, then that sounds right too. My dictionary 
also defines a hub as "a centre of activity" which also sounds about right.
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