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	<description>Did you buy a harmonica?</description>
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		<title>Ethernet Would be a Failure</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Olding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[March, 1974. This new &#8216;ethernet&#8217; idea would never work.  With its concept of variably sized packets and random backoff timings, it would be too unpredictable to deliver any reliable amount of bandwidth.  Well, they say hindsight is 20/20, as this Xerox memo in 1974 shows. &#8220;Your transmission medium or environment is not quantum noise limited. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Created Linux?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2004 15:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Olding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(from CNet) Several sites are running stories about how a DC think tank, the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, is raising questions of whether Linus can really be considered the father of the OS. AdTI claims that more credit should go to Andrew Tanenbaum, who was at the same university as Linus, and developed Minix, which [...]]]></description>
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