On Nov 29, 2006, at 8:16 AM, Brian Rosen wrote:
However, what this subthread demonstrates is
that they were conceptually an incremental change, not a giant,
discontinuous, intellectual leap.
I thought we all knew that.
Oh, I agree, we knew that. There are very, very few discontinuous
intellectual leaps in our part of the universe. It's hard to name
one that
happened in the past decade or two.
Can we name any discontinuous intellectual leaps of late in computer
networking? Now that I think about it, forget "of late", have
there EVER
been any?
circuit switching -> packet switching
Some people have never recovered.
Regards
Marshall
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