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I can't remember a time before CVS (and now DVCS). Distributing patches via geocache sounds awesome.


"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." —Tanenbaum, Andrew S.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet#In_media


The latency is the problem, not the bandwidth.

(By the way, considered as a means of transferring information sex has lots of bandwidth, too. Not, yet, useful for sharing patches, though.)


Well, not consciously-designed ones.




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