[1757] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
what is a high speed network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (drw@BOURBAKI.MIT.EDU)
Mon Dec 16 18:17:45 1991
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 91 18:15:11 EST
From: drw@BOURBAKI.MIT.EDU
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <"16-Dec-91 13:35:05 +1".*.Charles_K._Kuhlman.MAN@RXG.Xerox.com> "CK.MAN@rxg.xerox.com"
From: CK.MAN@rxg.xerox.com
I will the first to admit (and I have) that all of this is a gross
oversimplification. But....... Does anyone remember the old Apple
Computer ad? The one about `computers for the rest of us'? What
about high speed networking for the rest of us?
I remember an entry in the New Hacker's Dictionary: "Computers for the
rest of them", meaning systems that were made so trivial to operate
for naive users that they were nearly useless for sophisticated users.
Pretty snide, but it does underline the point that different classes
of users have wildly different needs.
Dale Worley Dept. of Math., MIT drw@math.mit.edu
