[dsimms]

This gets reinvented as a system matures, I think.

IBM mainframes had TCP offload in the early 90's at least. (The NIC in that case was a PC running PS/2 plus some routing software. Worked great.)

[dsimms]

and they surely weren't the first to do that either, I assume now.

[Cyphase]

FYI, it's possible to edit comments to add further thoughts. :)

[salawat]

Only for two hours.

As it turns out, my average time to return from distraction to proofread is a little bit more than two hours.

[Cyphase]

Indeed, that does seem to happen often. Though in GGP's case the reply was posted within a minute of the original comment.

[dsimms]

the world should be append only!