Most of our systems use class B, where you see 2 jumpers in the panel per zone and 2 wires going out. Class A is safer because it can be cut in the middle of the loop and still cause an alarm on either end. A class B intelligent system may not use EOLs because each device is polled so you don't need a resistor, capacitor, or diode at the end to know that you're getting to the last device.