Quotes.
That was "Never underestimate the bandwidth capability of a station wagon full of mag tape" (as opposed to punched tape, presumably), often attributed to Taunannbaum in the late '90s ... However, it was a common expression when I was at DEC long before that ... and I remember a similar comment from a student at Stanford in the early '80s[0] when a professor expressed surprise at one of the vaxen already running the latest 3BSD build, released just a few hours before. Conversation went "How on earth did you get that code across the network that fast?" answer was "My motorcycle's latency might be sub-par, but it still has a much higher bandwidth capability than your network!".
[0] Might have been as early as 1979. Was early-on in the 3BSD era, anyway ... Use of the VAX's virtual memory[1] system was an exciting thing back then, thus the 0-dark-thirty bike ride.
[1] Why did you think they called it vmunix?
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