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Vint Cerf on Why TCP/IP Was So Long in Coming

Posted by Zonk on from the we-built-this-city-on-ip-and-stone dept.

whitehartstag writes "TCP/IP is 25 years old this year. Vint Cerf says there was a long development cycle for both TCP/IP and for X.25, and we'd have been using TCP/IP much sooner if TCP/IP had been more marketable. 'Over the years, we can come up with many examples both of where the best technology did (or did not) win and of how marketing has defined a service. For example, many of the "best" features of frame relay, such as the ability to use Switched Virtual Circuits (SVC) in addition to Permanent Virtual Circuits (PVC) were never widely marketed because the pricing was too complex. Rather, the PVC was a simple replacement for a leased line at a fraction of the cost with better performance.'"

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  1. Re:where's the content? by jd · · Score: 4, Funny

    You need to run the article through a ROT13 filter, followed by the Bible Code decoder and finally the Redneck filter, to get the URL of the real article. This encryption technique was developed to prevent the real server being slashdotted.

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  2. Re:Seems normal. by techpawn · · Score: 3, Funny

    I guess this moderator thinks that 'troll' means "I didn't understand a word you just said".
    No no no! Didn't you get the memo? For the time being Moderators are to use Overrated, Flamebate, and Troll until the new options of -1 Unpopular, -1 Shut-up, and -1 I-just-don't-like-you are rolled out. It's just a workaround, so be patient.
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  3. The Da Vinci Codec by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Only to find out that the original TCP/IP specification was designed by Leonardo Da Vinci and hidden in a strangely effeminate painting.

    Which, of course, explains why it took so long to get implemented.

  4. Re:A little more here... by LMacG · · Score: 3, Funny

    NetworkWorld Accountant: Ad revenue seems to be off this week. Quick, somebody submit a story to Slashdot! (Before Computerworld does the same thing!)

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  5. Re:where's the content? by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Funny

    I know that there isn't much real content on the web anymore, but that's not even an article. Where the hell is the content?

    It's split up. One packet went to Australia, another to Zimbabwe, and another to

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  6. Re:Seems normal. by jd · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe he does. I've not seen 3Com for a while and Bay went belly-up. If he was the chief designer for those two, it would explain what happened to them.

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