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Thu, 04/04/2019 - 10:53

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KE2N

the fastest way to send data?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/networks/pigeonbased-feathernet-still-wingsdown-fastest-way-of-transferring-lots-of-data

Thu, 04/04/2019 - 12:05

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Great read!

That was entertaining. Most of don't really think about what it takes to move hundreds of TeraBytes.

Fri, 04/05/2019 - 21:27

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Bandwidth

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

—Tanenbaum, Andrew S. (1989). Computer Networks. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. p. 57. ISBN 0-13-166836-6.

The original version of this quotation came much earlier; the very first problem in Tanenbaum's 1981 textbook Computer Networks asks the student to calculate the throughput of a St. Bernard carrying floppy disks. The first USENETcitation is July 16, 1985 and it was widely considered an old joke already.

There's a lot of band-width in a station wagon.

-Gruenberger, Fred (1971). San Francisco: Canfield Press. p. 138. ISBN 978-0063834057.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet

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