TCP Fast Open: expediting web services [LWN.net]

TCP Fast Open: expediting web services

Posted Aug 2, 2012 23:44 UTC (Thu) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641)
In reply to: TCP Fast Open: expediting web services by gdt
Parent article: TCP Fast Open: expediting web services

So when will we see companies building vacuum tubes used to speed up the light when crossing large parts of land or maybe the atlantic ?

That is the thing I care about. ;-)

Is anyone doing research on that yet ?

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TCP Fast Open: expediting web services

Posted Aug 4, 2012 12:20 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Warning: work in this area can be dangerous. See e.g. the series, ahem I mean feasibility study, bookended by <http://www.amazon.com/The-Collapsium-Wil-McCarthy/dp/0553...>, <http://www.amazon.com/To-Crush-Moon-Wil-McCarthy/dp/05535...>.

(Though admittedly the Queendom did go to rather more extreme lengths to increase the speed of light than mere vacuum tubes, and displayed a cavalier degree of carelessness, indeed insouciance, regarding the fact that keeping trillions of black holes in your solar system in very large arrays moving at well below orbital velocity is insanely dangerous.)