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Subject: Re: TCP latency
Message-ID: <1996Jul8.125756.3042@figmnt.tayloru.edu>
From: msterret@matthew.css.tayloru.edu (Mr. Bones.)
Date: 8 Jul 96 12:57:55 -0500
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tedm@agora.rdrop.com wrote:
: In <31DFEB02.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net>, "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> writes:
: >Erik Corry wrote:
: >> 
: >> John S. Dyson (toor@dyson.iquest.net) wrote:
: >> : Linus Torvalds wrote:
: >> : > In article <31DC8EBA.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net>,
: >> : > John S. Dyson <toor@dyson.iquest.net> wrote:
: 
: [blah blah deleted]
: 
: I have to interject something here on this discussion:
: 
: I feel this has gotten so academic that it is meaningless.  Who cares what the
: latency/throughput figures are or who is winning the current benchmark in
: vogue!
<Excellent comments snipped>
: Ted Mittelstaedt

Let's here is for Ted.  I'd love to see hard data, but speculation
gets boring after a few pages.  Besides, who cares as long as our
TCP/IP blows the doors off M$ stuff. ;-)
-- 

Michael Sterrett
  -Mr. Bones.-
msterret@css.tayloru.edu