[ih] booting linux on a 4004

[Greg Skinner]

On Oct 2, 2024, at 11:18 AM, Michael Greenwald via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Lixia! (Yes, it's been a long time. At least a decade or 2)
> My memory is (no surprise) cloudy. For some reason I thought you arrived a year or two later than '81.
> I have no memory (again, no surprise) of what, specifically, your promising "alternative" was, but an early reference to (virtual)clock based control of packets sounds plausible.
> I'm not shocked by the difference between Van's comment back then and BBR now. There's never a guarantee that claims that something "simply cannot work" or "will obviously help" back then (or even now) will hold up over long time periods, unless there is a formal proof or a lot of experimental validation. (And even then conditions change).
> 
> About the work that I thought predated you: Dave Clark remembers that there was an undergraduate who did work on Source Quench, but not his name, nor details of what he did. So at least I didn't completely hallucinate….

Offhand, I don’t know who it was, but it occurred to me that it could be someone on this list of Multics Technical Bulletin authors. [1] A few of them were MIT undergrads during the early 1980s.

--gregbo

[1] https://www.multicians.org/mtb-index.html