[ih] Early Internet history

[jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)]

    > From: Craig Partridge

    > Earlier -- 1790s (the so-called Napoleonic telegraph ... It interleaved
    > messages from multiple spots, I believe.

If that's so, Kleinrock _did_ invent packet switching (since his network
"interleaved messages from multiple spots")... (The part he missed was
breaking a message up into chunks, and sending the chunks separately.)

	 Noel