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RE: NANOG
From: Jim Fleming <JimFleming () unety net>
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 14:11:47 -0600
On Saturday, April 06, 1996 12:25 PM, Hank Nussbacher[SMTP:hank () ibm net il] wrote: @Craig came down very hard on Bob Metcalfe and I was hoping that over @the past few days someone would step in and explain that Bob is far @from being a clueless journalist. I believe Craig is just showing @how young he is. Bob Metcalfe along with David Boggs published in @ACM (July 1976) an article entitled "Ethernet - Distributed Packet @Switching for Local Computer Networks". This paper was the groundwork @for Ethernet - without which we would still be using X.25 and possibly @no LANs. Having Bob (as well as a few other heavyweights) on this list, @we can only come to a better understanding of the routing, addressing @and portability problems of the Internet that we are all hitting. @ @Craig, Bob has probably forgotten more than you and I will ever know. @ @ Bob is a Dolphin...he can laugh all the way to the bank...he can swim free of the fighting Cats and Dogs...Dogs do like to swim, but they have trouble barking when they swim...Cats hate the water...:-) ...keep swimming Bob...:-)...keep laughing...every so often, you can stand up on your tail and do the "Flipper" routine...the children should love it... unfortunately, all they know how to do is stand on the shore and bark...:-) ...the Cats are watching the Dogs...the Dolphins have nothing to fear... -- Jim Fleming UNETY Systems, Inc. Naperville, IL 60563 e-mail: JimFleming () unety net
Current thread:
- Re: NANOG, (continued)
- RE: NANOG Jeff Ogden (Apr 03)
- RE: NANOG Michael Dillon (Apr 03)
- RE: NANOG Vadim Antonov (Apr 03)
- Re: NANOG Bob Metcalfe (Apr 04)
- Re: NANOG Hank Nussbacher (Apr 06)
- Re: Bob Metcalfe Edward Henigin (Apr 06)
- RE: NANOG Jim Fleming (Apr 06)
- Re: NANOG Vadim Antonov (Apr 06)
- Re: NANOG Craig A. Huegen (Apr 06)
- Re: NANOG Hank Nussbacher (Apr 07)