"AT&T seemed pretty clueless about networking"

[henry_flower]

Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 11:17:09 -0800
From: Steve Johnson <scj-nwtwud4k+p9bdgjk7y7tuq@public.gmane.org>
Newsgroups: gmane.org.unix-heritage.general
Subject: Re: TUHS Digest, Vol 14, Issue 63
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This comment reminded me of an internal talk I attended at Bell
Labs.  It had the single most powerful slide I've ever seen in a
talk.  It was a talk about internal networking, and the slide looked
like your standard network diagram -- lots of circles with lots of
lines connecting them.  The computation centers were networked.
UUCP was on there, and datakit.

But dead in the middle of the slide was a circle that had absolutely
no connections with anything.  Of course, somebody asked about, and
was told "Oh.  That's the networking department..."

As I recall, said department ceased to exist about a month later...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry McVoy" <lm-vxhrmpcwsr4avxtiumwx3w@public.gmane.org>

. . .
 AT&T seemed pretty clueless about networking.
. . .