This comment reminded me of an internal talk I attended at Bell Labs.  It had the single most powerful slide I've ever seen in a talk.  It was a talk about internal networking, and the slide looked like your standard network diagram -- lots of circles with lots of lines connecting them.  The computation centers were networked.  UUCP was on there, and datakit.

But dead in the middle of the slide was a circle that had absolutely no connections with anything.  Of course, somebody asked about, and was told "Oh.  That's the networking department..."

As I recall, said department ceased to exist about a month later...



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"Larry McVoy" <lm@mcvoy.com>


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AT&T seemed pretty clueless about networking.
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