31 Dec
2006
31 Dec
'06
10:38 p.m.
> In the case of a really old system like that, it
doesn't matter what the
> network is - the network will never be the problem, unless I use bongos
> as the transport mechanism.
On Mon, 1 Jan 2007, Warren Wolfe wrote:
Keep it in historical context... Bongos were a
significant speed
increase over smoke signals.
??
~1100 feet per second v 186,000 miles per second
But bongos could operate without line of sight,
and with or without ambient light.
Neither seems to be supported by current MICROS~1 software.
So, reliability is likely to be higher than modern NICs.