"Brian Rosen" <br@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 11/29/2006 08:16:35 AM: > > However, what this subthread demonstrates is > > that they were conceptually an incremental change, not a giant, > > discontinuous, intellectual leap. > > > > I thought we all knew that. > Oh, I agree, we knew that. There are very, very few discontinuous > intellectual leaps in our part of the universe. It's hard to name one that > happened in the past decade or two. > > Can we name any discontinuous intellectual leaps of late in computer > networking? Now that I think about it, forget "of late", have there EVER > been any? > Turing machine? (Computers, but not Networking) The original Ethernet? (not really "discontinuous", but quite a big leap) Janet > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf