On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:36:34 -0400 Jeff Kell <jeff-k...@utc.edu> wrote:
> William Allen Simpson wrote: > > > > http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8248056.stm?ad=1 > > > > > > Update needed for RFC 1149 (1 April 1990), > > A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers > > Truly practical with today's storage media... if the Wiki story is > correct, it was a 4Gb memory stick > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet under "Usage Examples"). > There was the old "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station > wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. —Tanenbaum, Andrew S." > but then a pigeon would have trouble hauling 9-track tapes :-) > I don't know when Andy Tanenbaum said it, but I first heard it in 1969, referring to the Taconic Parkway in New York.... --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
