On Feb 5, 2011, at 6:11 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote: > > > On 2/5/2011 6:43 AM, Fred Baker wrote: >> On Feb 4, 2011, at 9:49 PM, Hayden Katzenellenbogen wrote: >>> Not sure if it has been said already but wasn't one of the key point for >>> the creation of the internet to create and infrastructure that would >>> survive in the case of all out war and massive destruction. (strategic >>> nuclear strikes) >> >> Urban legend, although widely believed. Someone probably made the >> observation. > > > Maybe not quite an UL... > > <http://www.rand.org/about/history/baran.html> > > On the average, The Rand Corp is extremely careful about what it publishes, > yet here it is, repeating the claim.
But Len Kleinrock adamantly disputes it. > Back in the '70s, I always heard "survive hostile battlefield conditions" and > never heard anyone talk about comms survival of a nuclear event, but I wasn't > in any interesting conversations, such as in front of funding agencies... To survive an EMP, electronics needs some fancy circuitry. I've never worked with a bit of equipment that had it. It would therefore have to have been through path redundancy.
