16 Jan
2017
16 Jan
'17
8:21 p.m.
It is pretty stunning that the company that had the largest network
in the world (the phone system of course) didn't get packet switching
at all. I dunno how Bell Labs was allowed to do all that great work
with management that clueless, that's a minor (major?) miracle right
there.
On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 11:17:09AM -0800, Steve Johnson wrote:
This comment reminded me of an internal talk I
attended at Bell
Labs.?? It had the single most powerful slide I've ever seen in a
talk.?? It was a talk about internal networking, and the slide looked
like your standard network diagram -- lots of circles with lots of
lines connecting them.?? The computation centers were networked.??
UUCP was on there, and datakit.
But dead in the middle of the slide was a circle that had absolutely
no connections with anything.?? Of course, somebody asked about, and
was told "Oh.?? That's the networking department..."
As I recall, said department ceased to exist about a month later...
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From: "Larry McVoy" <lm(a)mcvoy.com>
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AT&T seemed pretty clueless about networking.
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