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TweedHeads

Cool hack.

In the future, when network speed is not an issue, we should be able to send the whole web app (or page) in one packet.

One request, one response.

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In the future, as network speed becomes less of an issue, web apps will increase in size and complexity to compensate.

> when network speed is not an issue, we should be able to > send the whole web app (or page) in one packet

it is not the case that a faster network implies larger packets

In the limit it does, because a faster network means more interrupts per second when the packet size is fixed. Thus, Ethernet jumbograms. Also, there can be problems with bit-rate-independent framing; for example, 802.11b loses a lot of its 11Mbps to the packet preamble, since the preamble is the same number of microseconds for compatibility with the older 802.11 standards. (I assume G solved this problem.)

I suspect you could gzip a working CP/M system into a 9000-byte Ethernet jumbogram.

Many home routers and network devices I've seen have optional short preamble/long preamble.

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