The title is misleading: the piece covers far more ground than that.
I was fortunate to work for BBN briefly in the late 90s, and I visited their computer warehouse hoping to steal a hard drive for an old server. I regret not having a camera, because they had some pretty cool old hardware, including several long-obsolete IMPs.
That warehouse could easily have been converted to a museum; I hope someone preserved the hardware.
I see the same approach being rarely applied today, most protocols are done by regimented groups of competitive people that just want to see their idea being standardised, the result is often complex and inefficient constructs.
I do see the folks of the PJON project being the few trying to replicate the approach and the development environment described by the author: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON
[+] [-] macintux|5 years ago|reply
I was fortunate to work for BBN briefly in the late 90s, and I visited their computer warehouse hoping to steal a hard drive for an old server. I regret not having a camera, because they had some pretty cool old hardware, including several long-obsolete IMPs.
That warehouse could easily have been converted to a museum; I hope someone preserved the hardware.
[+] [-] d4r114|5 years ago|reply
I do see the folks of the PJON project being the few trying to replicate the approach and the development environment described by the author: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON