[ih] TCP fat pipe chronology (was Ken Olsen's impact on the Internet)

[Craig Partridge]

> The general understanding among computer companies in the mid-80s was 
> that TCP/IP was a fine proof-of-concept, but the real network was going 
> to be OSI. This wasn't any sort of conspiracy as much as it was a 
> recognition that large scale networks needed a different kind of system 
> for addressing and routing than the one that IPv4 provided, and that TCP 
> would have problems on fatter pipes.

Didn't want to let the error in chronology of TCP on fatter pipes slip past.

TCP fat pipe issues arose in 1988 as people were starting to envision
working on substantially faster channels (about that time Ira Richer of
DARPA started sprinkling a little money to look at gigabit issues in advance
of Kahn's gigabit testbed effort).  1988 is almost precisely when OSI was
swept from the US market and shortly before it became OBE in Europe as well.

No one in the mid-80s has any clue that there was an issue.

Thanks!

Craig