IP: Tapeworms..

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> To: "Dave Farber (E-mail)" <dave () farber net>
> Cc: "'Dennis Allison'" <allison () shasta Stanford EDU>,
>    John Shoch
>         <shoch () alloyventures com>
> Subject: RE: Seems to me you might comment ...
>
> Dave,
> I suspect you are thinking of the fictional "tapeworms" in Jerome Bruner's
> Sci-Fi book, "Shockwave Rider" -- autonomous programs which chased each
> other through a network.
> We explicitly acknowledged this as the inspiration when we originally coined
> the name "worm" for the actual (and more modest) distributed programs we did
> at Xerox PARC in the late '70s [Shoch & Hupp, CACM, 3/82].
> John Shoch
> Alloy Ventures



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