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Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. I always thought that was an Tanenbaum quote? The Wikipedia[1][2]
by dfc 14y ago
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
I always thought that was an Tanenbaum quote? The Wikipedia[1][2] citations use the word tapes but I seem to remember that DLTs was used instead of tapes.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
[2] http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum
- sj4nz 14y agoThis is why I labeled the quote "(apocraphal)". :) I first remember hearing it during the early days of Netflix---and I think it was Reed Hastings who said something similar to that effect as a quote of someone I can't remember now. I went with http://www.bpfh.net/sysadmin/never-underestimate-bandwidth.html http://www.bpfh.net/sysadmin/never-underestimate-bandwidth.h... as the reference for Dennis Ritchie's variant of the quote.