[ih] Better-than-Best Effort

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time-sharing is alive and well - spelled CLOUD

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On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 7:10 PM Jack Haverty via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Perhaps packet switching has outlived its usefulness?   With so much
> bandwidth, and so much computing power, setting up a circuit might now
> be better than moving packets?
>
> It's somewhat akin to the advent of cheap computers killing timesharing
> as PCs became dominant.
>
> Surely that thought will cause a ruckus here!
>
> /Jack
>
>
> On 8/27/21 3:51 PM, Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history wrote:
> > As long as queuing theory holds and glass fibres are cheap, I am not sure
> > much is going to change.
>
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