And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, November 18, 2023
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of records.
In the early internet days, network capacity at one of our sites was compared to: 1) Sending one Honeywell H-96 tape across country every week. 2) Sending one 600 Mbyte HD across country every week. 3) Sending one 2 Gbyte HD across country every day. 4) Sending one 100 Gbyte HD across country every day.
Even if the transit mechanism was a RT airline ticket and a day’s labor, that was just what it took to get the data from site to site. Bandwidth can be measured in many ways.
There is a very old joke that says nothing exceeds the bandwidth of a grad student barreling down the highway in a station wagon full of nine track (data) tapes....
In the early internet days, network capacity at one of our sites was compared to:
ReplyDelete1) Sending one Honeywell H-96 tape across country every week.
2) Sending one 600 Mbyte HD across country every week.
3) Sending one 2 Gbyte HD across country every day.
4) Sending one 100 Gbyte HD across country every day.
Even if the transit mechanism was a RT airline ticket and a day’s labor, that was just what it took to get the data from site to site. Bandwidth can be measured in many ways.
There is a very old joke that says nothing exceeds the bandwidth of a grad student barreling down the highway in a station wagon full of nine track (data) tapes....
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