Talk:Edson Hendricks

Connectionless?
The statement "From that point on, Vint and other DARPA scientists adopted Hendricks’ (sic) connectionless approach." is rather strange, given that the article does not describe a connectionless approach at all, much less one adopted by ARPA. Presumably what is meant is the use of dial access rather than just leased lines, but such use entails a connection. Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 11:42, 24 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Hello Shmuel. I understand that the "connectionless" concept refers to not requiring a continuous dedicated direct 1-to-1 connection (example: an old telephone connection) between the devices. Instead, the addressed message packets are sent out to the network as a whole, where a packet will circulate until it finds a device that corresponds to that address and accepts the packet. Arpanet required fixed connections through a central hub; VNet did not have a central controlling hub. HTTP and TCP/IP were arguably just codifying what already existed in VNet with some minor but valuable improvements. Thus the argument that RSCS and VNet were the basis for the Internet, and not Arpanet. "Connectionless" was a non-intuitive concept for computer scientists of the day, but Hendricks was neurodivergent and fortunately had genius insights. I assert that Hendricks was neurodivergent based on many hours of interviewing him (and sampling craft beer together - his passion) and his own claim that his mind "operated differently from other people's" so he could relate better to machines. - Bruce Batchelor bruce.batchelor@gmail.com 2604:3D08:1C7D:9600:685A:E672:8DEC:9224 (talk) 17:35, 6 May 2022 (UTC)