Van Jacobson Denies Averting Internet Meltdown In 1980s

Source: Slashdot

New submitter strangebush sends this quote from Wired about Van Jacobson's work on the TCP/IP protocol in the '80s, which helped stabilize early computer networks enough for them to eventually grow into the internet: "'I was getting a bit per second b ...
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