[32838] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Packet Loss
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Thu Dec 14 16:46:43 2000
From: Larry Sheldon <lsheldon@creighton.edu>
Message-Id: <200012142133.PAA26906@bluejay.creighton.edu>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 15:33:49 CST
In-Reply-To: <20001214211435.7311F35DC2@smb.research.att.com>; from "Steven M. Bellovin" at Dec 14, 100 1:14 pm
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> >> 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.
>
> *Much* older -- I first heard it in 1969, and I don't think it was
> orginal then...
Where I was at the time (in the early '70's) our disaster recovery
documentation included a discussion on selecting the method of getting
our stuff to the "hot site" backup location (How many unfamiliar terms
have I used so far?).
Among the alternatives in that discussion were "wide-band truck" and
"wide-band airplane".
We thought we had invented the concept.
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