Hahahah!!!!! I can remember the days, Yes, Xmodem / ZModem and good ole' Fidonet nodes and points was neat but kawasaki protocol was a bandwidth winner hands down.
in memoriam, requiescant in pace Philippine Fidonet: http://memweb.newsguy.com/~twilight/fido/fdpoint.pvt signing out from 6:751/555 Point_of_Know_Return Cheers to All Glenn Author: eric pareja Date: 2010-02-03 21:51 +800 To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List Subject: Re: [plug] Code Review kawasaki protocol is a variant of SneakerNet and IP over Avian Carrier. back in the old BBSing days, when modem speeds were primarily 1200 and 2400 bps and 9600 bps was high speed, we used sneakernet a lot to trade files and we even held one or two EBs to copy more than dozens floppy disks of Linux installers. the latency was high, but throughput was much more than was commonly achieved over the phone lines. plus, we could swap stories and share pizza, beer and soda at the same time. On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:21 PM, fooler mail <fooler.m...@???> wrote: > comelec must have a continuity plan in case there is a failure of > transmission of signed data... one of the options is to use kawasaki > protocol... > > kawasaki protocol is where... get the signed data.. get a kawasaki > motorcycle.. and deliver that signed data to the next level (eg. > municipal level) :-> > > i coined this kawasaki protocol during the 90's where my friend was > complaining to me that it took days for him to transfer its hundreds > of megabytes of banking database data over to a 33.6kbps modem where > the two offices are just 5 kilometers apart... he had a kawasaki > motorcycle at that time... i told him the throughput of kawasaki > protocol is way better than using a 33.6kbps modem :-> > > now if they want to cheat kawasaki protocol.. they must use *ampatuan* > protocol.. hehehehe -- Eric Manuel Pareja (eric.par...@???) LPIC-2 Coordinator for Technology / Senior Linux Trainer National Telehealth Center, University of the Philippines Manila Philippines International Open Source Network - ASEAN+3 PGP/GPG Key 0xB82E42D9 "Ang mundo ay aklat, at iisang pahina lamang ang nababasa ng hindi naglalakbay." - San Agustin わかよたれぞ つねならむ _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
