i do not doubt this Alan, apropos of which I once came across an nice old AT&T add I have somewhere advertising transcontinental telephone in the US with a reference to the time of the "ping" from coast to coast and return .... x miles in x seconds ..... the genealogy of computing and indeed *nix oweth mucho to the old systems of telegraphy and telefony .....
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