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> It started as a brainstorm between Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph, successful businessmen looking to reinvent the DVD rental business. It definitely did not
by santiagobasulto 3y ago
> It started as a brainstorm between Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph, successful businessmen looking to reinvent the DVD rental business.
It definitely did not. Reed always had the online streaming business as main goal, but internet was not as fast yet.
He cites Andrew Tanenbaum’s Networking book as inspiration. There’s a page in the book that says “don’t underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of data tapes”.
(I used the same textbook at Uni and I remember clearly reading that page as well, crazy)
- jefftk 3y ago"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." - Computer Networks, 3rd ed., p. 83. (paraphrasing Dr. Warren Jackson, Director, University of Toronto Computing Services (UTCS) circa 1985) via https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum
- santiagobasulto 3y agoYes, that one, thanks! I also remember one from Silberschatz's OS textbook about Deadlock that mentioned an old law which said that whenever two trains approached an intersection, they both had to come to a full stop and none could move until the other one had left.