<div dir="ltr">actually their experience with a one-node local area network influenced Roberts' choice of data rate. Roger Scantlebury attended the 1967 meeting at which he met Larry and said that higher speed would reduce delay. Larry ended up with 50 Kb/s lines rather slower 2.4 kb/s lines. Roger and Donald and others were very active in INWG, EIN as well.<div><br></div><div>v</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Noel Chiappa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu" target="_blank">jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> > From: James P. Sterbenz<br>
<span class=""><br>
> I'd hope that related major milestones in Cyclades and Davie[s'] NPL<br>
> would be included.<br>
<br>
</span>So I'm curious, why Davies' stuff? Other than the name of packet switching<br>
(not to belittle the importance of that, sometimes a good name is worth a<br>
great deal indeed), what major technical influence did his work have?<br>
<br>
(This is not snark, but a genuine question - I'm pretty familiar with the<br>
literature, but I don't know of any - or, at least, I've never seen anything<br>
which examines this particular point, and provides an answer.)<br>
<br>
I know we have a number of early ARPANet people here - perhaps one of them<br>
has some insight here?<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Noel<br>
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