From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 11:21:12 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 14, Issue 63 In-Reply-To: References: <20170116164421.GJ6647@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: <20170116192112.GR6647@mcvoy.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" > > . . . > AT&T seemed pretty clueless about networking. > . . . > -- --- Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm