Matthew BurtonDec 23, 2022
Me: I personally prefer #Vim, but the best engineers I know regard #eMacs as an essential tool of the trade.
Vim person: eMacs is built by a crazy person!
Me: Okay. Btw, how are you connected to your network right now?
Vim person: Ethernet! Why use anything else?!
Show threadJeff McAdamsDec 23, 2022
@matthewburton I truly believe the networking industry would be in a better place today had Ethernet never been invented.
Show threadMatthew BurtonDec 23, 2022
@jeffm interesting. Teach me more?
Show threadJeff McAdams

@matthewburton It's like systems and software would not have been routinely developed to take advantage of the network lazily and opportunistically learning where endpoints are and would have had to develop the ability (protocols) to authoritatively tell the network where endpoints are.

So many of the biggest challenges in networking derive from trying to, 5 decades later, emulate putting a frame on a coax cable.

Systems need to quit assuming a common later 2 network.

Dec 23, 2022 at 9:11pmWeb