From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 14, Issue 63
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 11:21:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170116192112.GR6647@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e1ed887565d75543128f9e66919de8291207b9f0@webmail.yaccman.com>
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...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Larry McVoy" <lm at mcvoy.com>
>
> . . .
> AT&T seemed pretty clueless about networking.
> . . .
>
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Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2017-01-16 16:00 ` Doug McIlroy
2017-01-16 16:22 ` Marc Rochkind
2017-01-16 16:44 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-16 16:52 ` Marc Rochkind
2017-01-16 19:17 ` Steve Johnson
2017-01-16 19:21 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2017-01-16 19:57 ` Ken Thompson
2017-01-16 23:41 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-01-16 23:45 ` Brantley Coile
2017-01-17 4:07 ` Jason Stevens
2017-01-17 5:22 ` William Corcoran
2017-01-17 11:43 ` Jason Stevens
2017-01-17 14:27 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-17 14:21 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-16 19:46 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-17 0:30 ` Brad Spencer
2017-01-17 15:32 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-18 14:29 ` Paul Ruizendaal
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