137: The Origins of the Internet with John Day
Programming Throwdown
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Do You Have a Circle Cue?
In 19 68, peter denning did a killing model for terminals on a time sharing system. He showed that with poole, the probability of running out of buffers was point zero,. But if heas static, it was point nine. We have to go to forty, 500 bites to get the same performance you had at 750, right? Right? I make sense. So while a contiguous memory, a continuous block of data, por t c p connection, would work and be simple, it's not what you want to do - especially as the band with delay product gets larger and larger.
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