[ih] Question on Flow Control

[touch at strayalpha.com]

> On Dec 29, 2025, at 11:18 AM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> Whenever there's a question about who invented some protocol or algorithm in the computer world, IMHO it's useful to remember that humans have been communicating for a very long time -- well before computers existed.  My impression has always been that many "inventions" in the computer world were simply translations of older "protocols" and "algorithms" that humans used before computers were available to do the tedious work.

Indeed - see Claude Chappe’s work, which included pacing-based flow control, error detection and correction, pause/resume, etc., based on codebooks that included control signals in addition to data. A LOT of that seems to have been reinvented/rediscovered.

Joe