Time4aNAP
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| reply to dave
Re: Yeah, but, no, but ...
said by dave  :(But it is a pretty amusing memo, now we have the benefit of hindsight). Hindsight is one thing. What I found amusing were references to statistics that Mr. Bachrach used to bash the proposal. This guy had to have been a bean counter who truly believed that he knew more about engineering than engineers.
This one is the capper: "The fallacy in your conception is that the stations should be transmitting randomly." Remember that this memo is dated after Vint Cerf had set up shop at Stanford, and had made great progress on TCP/IP. By 1974, the writing was on the wall that Bellcore technology was not the future. Mr. Bachrach may have been the only one in Palo Alto who was oblivious to this. |
