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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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