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Who Invented Packet-Switching?
Saint Aardvark writes "It's how the Internet works, and now who invented packet-switching is under dispute. A posthumous paper by British scientist Dr. Donald Davies disputes the claim by Leonard Kleinrock to have invented the technique, saying Kleinrock never took it beyond the case of a single node. Kleinrock, whose lab was the first node on Arpanet, is willing to concede that Davies invented the term "packet-switching.""
He invented pants too.
No, no, no. Apple invented it and Microsoft stole it from them.
Obviously you have never seen Al Gore. It is well suspected that Al is a Robotic Creation devised to bore The Masses into servitude. The mystery is just who is behind this maniacal plot.
Then apple must have stolen it from Xerox!
hit the nail on the head there. it's a friday. better this than having anthrax stories all around this place :). i come to slashdot to get away from anthrax, so if squabbles over packet-switching inventors is all they can muster up toady, i'll take it.
I don't think you get it.
Why am I having a hard time believing that someone going by the nick, "CmdrTroll", has his name on several patents? Let me guess, you invented the first post?
Microsoft didn't invent packet switching.
Microsoft innovated packet switching.
It had to be the Spanish Inquisition.
NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!