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Tue Jun 26 09:02:57 EDT 2018
Slept from eleven to seven. Woke briefly around one-thirty.
High of seventy-eight and mostly sunny.
Work:
- Close office for Loretta
Done.
- Follow up on fiber
A bit.
Twenty-five-minute walk at lunch.
Home:
- Laundry
Done.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/cyberspace/osi-the-internet-that-wasnt
> For a time, their vision seemed like the right one. Thousands of engineers and policymakers around the world became involved in the effort to establish OSI standards. They soon had the support of everyone who mattered: computer companies, telephone companies, regulators, national governments, international standards setting agencies, academic researchers, even the U.S. Department of Defense. By the mid-1980s the worldwide adoption of OSI appeared inevitable.
Paul Baran
> And yet, by the early 1990s, the project had all but stalled in the face of a cheap and agile, if less comprehensive, alternative: the Internet’s Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol. As OSI faltered, one of the Internet’s chief advocates, Einar Stefferud, gleefully pronounced: “OSI is a beautiful dream, and TCP/IP is living it!”
https://beego.me/
Played some SteamWorld Heist.
Lunch: coffee, chicken wrap
Dinner: carrots, chicken pot pie
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