RE: Huge drivespace Re: computing budgeting (fwd)

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From: Dan Kohn (dan@dankohn.com)
Date: Sat Sep 09 2000 - 11:27:15 PDT

There's no discontinuity if yo u view bandwidth on a log scale.

                - dan 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Bone [mailto:jbone@jump.net]
Sent: Thursday, 2000-09-07 11:05
To: Tom Whore
Cc: Eugene Leitl; Brian Atkins; fork@xent.com
Subject: Re: Huge drivespace Re: computing budgeting (fwd)

Tom Whore wrote:

> Usgae will increas to fill up all the bandwidth that can be made.

This is absolutely true in the long run.

> Case in point....Me
>
> Given a modem i hosed it down for all its worth, from my first 300 baud
> to the last 56k i owened.

All of those transitions, essentially, were incremental.  We're talking
about
*huge* discontinuity here --- 3x as big as the ENTIRE discontinuity between
1980 and today, happening in a compressed period of the next year or so.
Try
to imagine it this way:  what in the world would you have done in, say,
1982,
with DSL, a 386 box or Mac, and the apps / services that existed then?  The
"stuff" just wouldn't exist to really utilize that capacity in any
interesting
way.

> "Bandwidth expands to fit the waste available"

Absolutely true.  But it says nothing about timeframes or discontinuities.

jb

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