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.


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