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    Notice: Virtual Distributed Ethernet is not related in any way with
    www.vde.com ("Verband der Elektrotechnik, Elektronik und Informationstechnik"
    i.e. the German "Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information 
    Technologies").

I wonder how many times that came up, that they had to put it in the README.

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In Germany, very often. VDE is like ANSI or IEEE there.

If you ever work on anything electrical in Germany, you see the acronym VDE everywhere on standards etc.

I CE.

And in the rest of the world, screwdrivers.

Why is it that we all use VDE ratings for high voltage insulated screwdrivers, but (as far as I'm aware/can think of) nothing else?!

I suppose DIN is similar: to most people it's just the rail. (Not to mention I wouldn't be surprised if the common one is just one of many DIN rail specifications or size variants.)

> I suppose DIN is similar: to most people it's just the rail.

Or the paper sizes, if you're not American.

Actually I had no idea the A sizes were DIN476, fwiw. (I'm British, we do use them.)

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