I should also say that Comer had his own biases. He had an extremely dim view of ATM[1], but ATM is a great protocol if you want to keep POTS[2] latency low an

I should also say that Comer had his own biases. He had an extremely dim view of ATM[1], but ATM is a great protocol if you want to keep POTS[2] latency low and still share the network with non POTS data. ATM was a good technical solution to the specific problem. Whether or not it was a problem worth solving is another question. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_Transfer_Mode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_Transfer_Mode 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_old_telephone_service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_old_telephone_service