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- From: naddy@mips.pfalz.de (Christian Weisgerber)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Is UUCP is critical feature for Unix machine?
- Date: 13 Jan 1996 01:30:20 +0100
- Message-ID: <4d6ues$nsv@mips.pfalz.de>
- References: <4cce5p$605@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> <DKuGFn.7zt@bokonon.ussinc.com> <60WSket$YgB@quijote.in-berlin.de>
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- hajo@quijote.in-berlin.de (Hans-Joachim Zierke) writes:
-
- > 64/3 is a problem of the past. I have never seen this, I'm too young... :-)
- > I think Unix hackers still tell about it for sentimental reasons.
-
- I guess you'll need to come across a fairly old system to still
- encounter g(64,3). However, g(64,7) is still alive and messing around.
- Guess why Crosspoint comes with a default setting of g(64,7).
-
- Occasionally one runs into people who seem to have hibernated for the
- last ten years or so, e.g. at university computing centres, people who
- have an entirely unwarranted trust in vendor supplied software and
- distrust in free software, and who have not realized yet that there is a
- world beyond g(64,x). It doesn't help that even your average computer
- science graduate has never heard of sliding window protocols. :-(
-
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- Christian 'naddy' Weisgerber naddy@mips.pfalz.de
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