9 Feb
2017
9 Feb
'17
4:42 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 9:36 AM, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
Let's not forget the latency. 128ms of latency over modems was
awesomely low... That changed relatively little, even as the speeds
went from 1200 baud up to 57.6k.
While I am nostalgic for my early coding days on a 1200 baud video
screen and a 300 baud printer, I do not miss the speed or the latency
issues...
Warner
The best one
seems to have been the 3Com stack, which puts IP in the
kernel and TCP in a daemon. By the way, this implementation is also
where SLIP seems to have originated.
As much as I love all the nostalgia, and as cool as SLIP was, if I never
have to experience the pain of trying to run TCP/IP over a modem again,
I'll be happy. For me, SLIP was just not worth it. Too much overhead
when bandwidth was too precious. A dial up terminal emulator was a
better answer in my experience.
Don't get me wrong, SLIP was cool. Modems were slow.