Archive for April 1st, 2008
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
The Story of Ping, by Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wiese
Using deft allegory, the authors have provided an insightful and intuitive explanation of one of Unix’s most venerable networking utilities. Even more stunning is that they were clearly working with a very early beta of the program, as their book first appeared in 1933, years (decades!) before the operating system and network infrastructure were finalized.
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