“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.”

Computer Networks, 3rd ed., p. 83. (paraphrasing Dr. Warren Jackson, Director, University of Toronto Computing Services (UTCS) circa 1985)

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