http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/... Update needed for RFC 1149 (1 April 1990), A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:43:07 -0400 William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com> wrote:
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/...
Twenty five years ago we said "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of mag tapes hurtling down the highway." The tapes have got smaller as has the station wagon which has also grown wings and a self-directing control system. That's progress. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner.
William Allen Simpson wrote:
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/...
Update needed for RFC 1149 (1 April 1990), A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
Truly practical with today's storage media... if the Wiki story is correct, it was a 4Gb memory stick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet under "Usage Examples"). There was the old "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. —Tanenbaum, Andrew S." but then a pigeon would have trouble hauling 9-track tapes :-) Jeff
On 09/11/2009 06:36 AM, Jeff Kell wrote:
William Allen Simpson wrote:
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/...
Update needed for RFC 1149 (1 April 1990), A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
Truly practical with today's storage media... if the Wiki story is correct, it was a 4Gb memory stick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet under "Usage Examples"). There was the old "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. —Tanenbaum, Andrew S." but then a pigeon would have trouble hauling 9-track tapes :-)
Heck, your average sheet of paper with your average laser printer is about 5Mb. And that's random access, not some crufty sequential seeking tape :) Mike
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:36:34 -0400 Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu> wrote:
William Allen Simpson wrote:
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/...
Update needed for RFC 1149 (1 April 1990), A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
Truly practical with today's storage media... if the Wiki story is correct, it was a 4Gb memory stick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet under "Usage Examples"). There was the old "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. —Tanenbaum, Andrew S." but then a pigeon would have trouble hauling 9-track tapes :-)
I don't know when Andy Tanenbaum said it, but I first heard it in 1969, referring to the Taconic Parkway in New York.... --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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