SneakerNet

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 07:49:33AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> I remember that being a notable line of Prof. David Morgan in a University 
> of Waterloo OS course in 1973 (plus or minus 1 year).  I think it came 
> from his Bell Labs experience.
> 
> According to this AST worked at Bell Labs when he was a grad student:
>  http://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/geek-of-the-week/andrew-tanenbaum-geek-of-the-week/
> Since he got his PhD in 1971, this would have been before I heard Morgan 
> say the phrase.
> 
> So: I don't know who said it first but it was long before 1996.

Well I am pretty sure I remember seeing it in one of the Tanenbaum
textbooks on networking, but that doesn't mean he thought of it first.

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Len Sorensen
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