boblq wrote:
On Friday 23 June 2006 09:43 am, Tracy R Reed wrote:
Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
On Jun 21, 2006, at 8:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The 'Net was designed to survive a nuclear attack. It would be
It turns out that it is an urban legend that the net was designed to
survive a nuclear attack.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET#The_ARPANET_and_nuclear_attacks
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Tracy R Reed
True, but I can tell you that by the early 80's plenty of people were
studying how to make packet networks resilient in the face of nuclear
threats. I was one of them consulting for a little (now defunct) company
called Alta Technology where we did such stuff for the big defense
companies, like Rockwell Autonetics up in Anaheim.
BobLQ
You provoked a memory...
I have a picture of my father somewhere in which he is standing next to
a missle "warhead" at White Sands. He had to drag himself down there (he
happened to have a bad case of the flu at the time) to make some last
minute fix to the electronics for its approaching launch to test the
effects of EMP that they were under contract to research at Bendix
Areospace. That picture was from about 1970.
rbw
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