[ih] "Those who don't understand * [will] reinvent it"
Craig Partridge
craig at aland.bbn.com
Wed Nov 28 08:13:58 PST 2001
The widely attributed quote for Spencer appears to be:
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
I cannot find a similar quote for TCP, either by searching Google (which turns
up lots of Spencer UNIX quotes), or by searching my archives of the End-to-End,
IETF-Hosts, or TCP-IP. All but the TCP-IP archive are close to complete.
The closest I can find is a statement by Mike Padlipsky to the effect
that the OSI protocols were "reinvented" ARPA protocols (TCP-IP note send
15 April 1989).
Craig
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