[ih] The Internet Plan; was: Ken Olsen's impact on the Internet

[galmes at tamu.edu (Guy Almes)]

Jack,
   Thanks for the interesting and thoughtful comments.  It definitely 
has the ring of truth.
   Buried toward the end is one of the major (at the time) 
underestimated impacts of the NSFnet program.
   We thought that the NSFnet was for the science users (at it was!), 
but "letting the undergraduates in the dormitories connect too" may have 
been equally important.
   The graduating classes of '89 through about '97 were unbelievable 
change agents.
	-- Guy

On 2/14/11 11:37 PM, Jack Haverty wrote:
> ...
> - the new hires in IT, coming out of universities all over the world,
> knew all about TCP when they started work; they rarely knew anything
> about SNA, DecNet, OSI, etc., and they weren't very interested in
> learning
> - their own internal efforts with TCP had so far been refreshingly
> successful (no doubt because of those new hires...)
>...