[ih] Early Internet history

[vint at google.com (Vint Cerf)]

Kleinrock's analysis was for message switching but the mathematics of
message switching and packet switching are essentially comparable
especially when you consider variable length messages.

v


On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 7:05 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:

>     > 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.)
>
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