Colored Backgrounds (or not...)

[Bill Wood]

A technical note. The IP protocol is, by itself,
connectionless and is one of the packet level protocols
selected for communication with Space Station XXXXXX
(whatever they're calling it now, used to be
"Freedom").

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On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 08:55:46 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:

>Tuesday, December 14, 1999, 3:17:29 AM, Paul wrote:
>> The visionaries predicted that space travel would/will enable us to whisk
>> the willing excess population off to space-stations and new planets which
>> are just waiting for our arrival. Do you see that in the next few years?
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>    Unfortunately not.  *grumble, grumble*  I'm still looking at all the
>different ventures to get into space for a few $k per trip.  Darn it, I wanna
>live out there.  *sigh*
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>    Bet the connection sucks though.  I mean, can you imagine trying to
>communicate with Earth when you and all the others on Mars colony are limited
>to 600bps.
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>    Oh, darn, there's that damned bandwidth limitation again.  Fooie.
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>    As an aside, did you know that TCP/IP won't work over intrastellar space?
>The time factor causes a problem since the ack/nack is too long in coming
>back.  Of course, there are already groups working on specifications for an
>intrastellar network protocol.  ;)
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