From: Scott Bradner [mailto:sob@harvard.edu] Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 10:52 AM
Can we call on the Avian Carrier RFC here? Packet Loss may take on a whole new meaning here...
especially for the bulk transfer mode
Never under-estimate the bandwidth of a mini-van filled with DLT tapes, on the freeway at 65 mph. - updated to current - rmeyer - original author unknown
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 12:21:42 PST, Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com> said:
From: Scott Bradner [mailto:sob@harvard.edu] Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 10:52 AM
Can we call on the Avian Carrier RFC here? Packet Loss may take on a whole new meaning here...
At first reading, I saw 'Avian Carrier KFC'.
Never under-estimate the bandwidth of a mini-van filled with DLT tapes, on the freeway at 65 mph. - updated to current - rmeyer - original author unknown
Andy Tanenbaum, "Computer Networks", if I remember correctly. -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 12:21:42 PST, Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com> said:
Never under-estimate the bandwidth of a mini-van filled with DLT tapes, on the freeway at 65 mph. - updated to current - rmeyer - original author unknown
Andy Tanenbaum, "Computer Networks", if I remember correctly.
Page 83 in the 3rd edition: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. scott
Unnamed Administration sources reported that scott w said:
Page 83 in the 3rd edition: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
Older than that, and btw, Karl Kleinpaste did just that, when the initial Compuserve<-->'Net email link killed OSU's mail due to "ftp by mail" [ab]use. Karl wrote 9-track tapes and carried them across town to relieve the backed-up Telebit Trailblazer link..... -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 08:35:41PM -0500, David Lesher wrote:
Older than that, and btw, Karl Kleinpaste did just that, when the initial Compuserve<-->'Net email link killed OSU's mail due to "ftp by mail" [ab]use.
UUNET was mailing usenet news via tape back in '89 (and probably earlier). --asp
Never under-estimate the bandwidth of a mini-van filled with DLT tapes, on the freeway at 65 mph. - updated to current - rmeyer - original author unknown
the earliest attribution I've seen is the internet jargon files :sneakernet definition :sneakernet: /snee'ker-net/ /n./ Term used (generally with ironic intent) for transfer of electronic information by physically carrying tape, disks, or some other media from one machine to another. "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with magtape, or a 747 filled with CD-ROMs." Also called `Tennis-Net', `Armpit-Net', `Floppy-Net' or `Shoenet'. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu Academic User Services consult@gladstone.uoregon.edu PGP Key Fingerprint: 1DE9 8FCA 51FB 4195 B42A 9C32 A30D 121E -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is clear that the arm of criticism cannot replace the criticism of arms. Karl Marx -- Introduction to the critique of Hegel's Philosophy of the right, 1843.
2000-12-14-16:51:43 Joel Jaeggli:
Never under-estimate the bandwidth of a mini-van filled with DLT tapes, on the freeway at 65 mph. - updated to current - rmeyer - original author unknown
the earliest attribution I've seen is the internet jargon files
I tried to track that one down many years ago. The first attribution I knew of was Henry Spencer. I asked him about it, and he disclaimed authorship, said he didn't know where it may have originated, but that I should consider checking the very early working papers of the arpanet, c. 1970-ish. -Bennett
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