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Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband'
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:07:24 -0400
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:36:34 -0400 Jeff Kell <jeff-kell () 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 CarriersTruly 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
Current thread:
- SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' William Allen Simpson (Sep 11)
- Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' D'Arcy J.M. Cain (Sep 11)
- Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' Jeff Kell (Sep 11)
- Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' Michael Thomas (Sep 11)
- Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' Steven M. Bellovin (Sep 11)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' Scott Weeks (Sep 11)
- Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' William Herrin (Sep 11)
- Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' Nick Hilliard (Sep 11)
- RE: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' Holmes,David A (Sep 11)
- Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' William Herrin (Sep 11)
- Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' Colin Alston (Sep 22)
- Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' Scott Weeks (Sep 11)
- Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' Richard Bennett (Sep 11)
- Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' Christopher Hart (Sep 11)
- Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' Richard Bennett (Sep 11)