Around 11 o'clock on Dec 20, Martin Konold wrote:

> Nothing in computer technology grew as fast as network bandwidth during
> the last 20 years!

I assumed that was just missing the :-), I'm sure you're as frustrated as
the rest of us with the glacial improvements in LAN speeds.  20 years ago,
I was using yellow hose plugged into my 780 -- 1/10th the network connected
to 1/1000th the computer.  And, of course, we had to walk 10 miles to the
machine room, uphill both ways, through 10 foot drifts of punch card chaff.

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        Compaq Cambridge Research Lab


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