If you had taken Lions' class at the time, you would have bought two books
(one red and one orange). they were the Source Code and Commentary on UNIX
Level 6. The class became quite popular, and soon Bell Labs took notice.
Because we couldn't legally discuss the book in the
University's operating systems class, several of us would meet at night in an
empty classroom to discuss the book. It was the only time in my life that I
was an active member of an underground. --Peter B. Reintjes, on the back
of the 1996 reprinting of Lions' Commentary
Taken from Crackmonkey!
Recent work in collaboration with Van Jacobson of the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory has led to the design and implementation of several new algorithms
for TCP that improve throughput on both local and long-haul networks
while reducing unnecessary retransmission.
The improvement is especially striking when connections must traverse
slow and/or lossy networks.
The new algorithms include ``slow-start,''
a technique for opening the TCP flow control window slowly
and using the returning stream of acknowledgements as a clock
to drive the connection at the highest speed tolerated by the intervening
network.
A modification of this technique allows the sender to dynamically modify
the send window size to adjust to changing network conditions.
In addition, the round-trip timer has been modified to estimate the variance
in round-trip time, thus allowing earlier retransmission of lost packets
with less spurious retransmission due to increasing network delay.
Along with a scheme proposed by Phil Karn of Bellcore,
these changes reduce unnecessary retransmission over difficult paths
such as Satnet by nearly two orders of magnitude
while improving throughput dramatically.
Taken from NetBSD source tree.
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students
that have had prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are
mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra
Taken from Erann Gat's personal quote collection.
But how many cats are Microsoft Certified System Engineers?
He's not an MCSE yet! He failed TCP/IP!
part of a comic at penny arcade.
rants / map / carton's page / Miles Nordin <carton@Ivy.NET>
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