I'll check it out eventually. $10 on Ebay (the cheapest per
)
is a little steep nowadays. Maybe I'll spring for a <$17 new copy. No
Kindle, alas.
On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 9:35 AM Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 09:07:49AM -0400, John Cowan
wrote:
On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 10:20 PM Noel Chiappa
<jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
> it had things called 'flows' which were half way between pure
> datagrams (i.e. no setup - you just stick the right destination
address in
the
header and send it off) and VCs (read the RFCs if you want to kow why),
In that connection I have always admired Padlipsky's RFC 962, which
exploits the existing TCP architecture to do just this. So simple, so
easy, so Unixy.
I knew Mike, interesting dude. His "The Elements of Networking Style" is
a very fun read but also, for me, just getting to understand networking,
it snapped a bunch of stuff into focus. I think you have to read it
at just the right spot in your career and I did. Great little book and
full of jabs like "If you know what you are doing, 3 layers are enough.
If you don't, 7 aren't."